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Contributors | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Theoretical Foundations | |
Justice, Health, and Health Care | p. 17 |
Justice, Liberty, and the Choice of Health-System Structure | p. 35 |
A Utilitarian Approach to Justice in Health Care | p. 47 |
Justice Pluralism: Resource Allocation in Medicine and Public Health | p. 59 |
Health Risk and Health Security | p. 71 |
Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health Care Decision-Making | p. 79 |
Why There Is No Right to Health Care | p. 91 |
Equality, Democracy, and the Human Right to Health Care | p. 97 |
Access and Rationing | |
Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process | p. 107 |
Justice of and Within Health Care Finance | p. 121 |
Setting Priorities for a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care | p. 131 |
Why Justice Requires Rationing in Health Care | p. 143 |
Priority to the Worse Off in Health Care Resource Prioritization | p. 155 |
Whether to Discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource | p. 165 |
Responsibility for Health Status | p. 179 |
Health Care Justice and Political Agency 2011 | p. 201 |
Allocating Health Care Resources in the UK: Putting Principles into Practice | p. 219 |
Global Health, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice | p. 231 |
Equal Access to Health Care Under the UN Disability Rights Convention | p. 245 |
Populations | |
Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty | p. 255 |
Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care | p. 265 |
Gender Justice in the Health Care System: An Elusive Goal | p. 279 |
Justice for Gay and Lesbian People in Health Care | p. 289 |
Health Care Justice for the Chronically Ill and Disabled: A Deficiency in Justice Theory and How to Cure It | p. 299 |
Getting from Here to There: Claiming Justice for the Severely Cognitively Disabled | p. 313 |
Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status | p. 325 |
Health Care Reform and Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal | p. 335 |
Premature and Compromised Neonates | p. 347 |
Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice | p. 355 |
Health Care for Soldiers | p. 363 |
Social Justice and Correctional Health Services | p. 373 |
Dilemmas and Priorities | |
Are Pre-existing Condition Exclusion Clauses Just? Lessons from Causal and Ethical Considerations Regarding Genetic Testing | p. 387 |
Oral and Mental Health Services | p. 401 |
Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access: Alternative Health Care | p. 413 |
Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care | p. 433 |
Justice in Research on Human Subjects | p. 445 |
Just Genetics: The Ethical Challenges of Personalized Medicine | p. 461 |
Expanded Newborn Screening: Contemporary Challenges to the Parens Patriae Doctrine and the Use of Public Resources | p. 475 |
Justice, Profound Neurological Injury, and Brain Death | p. 485 |
Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation | p. 505 |
Justice in Planning for Pandemics and Disasters | p. 523 |
Justice Has (Almost) Nothing to Do With It: Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform | p. 531 |
Index | p. 543 |
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