The need for healthcare / / Rod Sheaff

• Autore: Sheaff Rod.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2; 362.1/01
• Soggetto topico: Medical policy - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain; Medical care - Needs assessment; Need (Philosophy); Right to health; Medical policy; Health Services Needs and Demand; Health Policy; Human Rights
• Soggetto geografico: United Kingdom
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; WHY A THEORY OF NEEDS?; WHAT KIND OF THEORY OF NEEDS?; NEEDS, NATURE AND SOCIETY; HEALTH NEEDS; DOES DOCTOR KNOW BEST?; NEEDS AND NORMALITY; DILEMMAS FOR HEALTH WORKERS; WHAT KIND OF HEALTH SYSTEM?; NEEDS, HEALTH AND MORALITY; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The rhetoric of 'needs' has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. This study identifies the ethical, policy and technical issues arising from the concept of needs. In the first part a theory of needs is developed, which takes into account both the philosophical traditions and the practical problems arising in daily health care. In a second part, health systems throughout the world are described and compared, addressing ethical as well as economical questions. Its interdisciplinary approach will make The Need for Healthcare important reading not on
• Altri titoli varianti: Need for health care
• Titolo autorizzato: The need for healthcare
• ISBN: 1-134-85438-2; 1-280-33310-3; 0-203-02033-2; 1-134-85439-0; 9786610333103
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784079003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social Ethics and Policy