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9780195143546

Medicine and Social Justice Essays on the Distribution of Health Care

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    9780195143546

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    019514354X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-08-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Because medicine can preserve and restore health and function, it has been widely acknowledged as a basic good that a just society should provide its members. Yet there is wide disagreement over the scope of what is to be provided, to whom, how, when and why. In this uniquely comprehensivebook some of the best-known philosophers, doctors, lawyers, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss the concerns and deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run through the contemporary debate. The first section lays a broad theoreticalbasis for understanding the concept of justice, particularly as it relates to the distribution of health care. The second section critically examines how medical care is distributed in different countries around the world and the particular advantages and injustices associated with those systems.The third section draws attention to the special needs of different social groups and the specific issues of justice that are raised by the impact of various policies on health care distribution. The concluding section delves intothe dilemmas that confront those designing health care systems--thepolitics, the priorities, and the place of desires as opposed to needs in a socially just scheme.

Table of Contents

Contributors xiii
I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Justice, Health, and Health Care
6(18)
Norman Daniels
Justice and the Basic Structure of Health-Care Systems
24(14)
Paul T. Menzel
Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism Seriously
38(15)
Jeffrey Blustein
Utilitarian Approaches to Justice in Health Care
53(12)
Matti Hayry
Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making
65(13)
David Wasserman
Why There Is No Right to Health Care
78(6)
Bernard H. Baumrin
Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care
84(18)
Kristen Hessler
Allen Buchanan
II RATIONING AND ACCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD
Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process
102(19)
Bruce C. Vladeck
Eliot Fishman
Health-Care Justice and Agency
121(13)
Patricia S. Mann
Treatment According to Need: Justice and the British National Health Service
134(10)
Roger Crisp
Rationing Decisions: Integrating Cost-Effectiveness with Other Values
144(12)
Tony Hope
John Reynolds
Sian Griffiths
Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the United Kingdom
156(13)
Richard H.S. Tur
Justice and the Social Reality of Health: The Case of Australia
169(14)
Mark Sheehan
Peter Sheehan
Justice for All? The Scandinavian Approach
183(8)
Tuija Takala
Ethics, Politics, and Priorities in the Italian Health-Care System
191(6)
Giovanna Ruberto
Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Trials in Developing Countries
197(15)
Baruch A. Brody
III SPECIAL NEEDS OF SOCIAL GROUPS
Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care
212(12)
Howard McGary
Gender Justice in the Health-Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes
224(11)
Rosemarie Tong
Nancy Williams
Bedside Justice and Disability: Personalizing Judgment, Preserving Impartiality
235(13)
Anita Silvers
The Medical, the Mental, and the Dental: Vicissitudes of Stigma and Compassion
248(11)
Michael Teitleman
Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal
259(11)
Loretta M. Kopelman
Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice
270(8)
Leslie Pickering Francis
Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care
278(12)
James Lindemann Nelson
Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation
290(11)
Eva Feder Kittay
Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty
301(18)
Patricia Smith
IV DILEMMAS FOR MEDICINE AND HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS: ASSESSMENT AND PRIORITIES
Alternative Health Care: Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access
319(26)
E. Haavi Morreim
Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation
345(17)
Rosamond Rhodes
Priority to the Worse Off in Health-Care Resource Prioritization
362(11)
Dan W. Brock
Whether to Discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource
373(17)
F.M. Kamm
Disability, Justice, and Health-Systems Performance Assessment
390(15)
Jerome E. Bickenbach
Responsibility for Health Status
405(21)
Lance K. Stell
Does Distributive Justice Require Universal Access to Assisted Reproduction?
426(12)
Mary Anne Warren
Premature and Compromised Neonates
438(8)
Ian R. Holzman
Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome?
446(13)
Leonard M. Fleck
Index 459

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