Medicine and Social Justice
Essays on the Distribution of Health Care
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 26 September 2002
- ISBN 9780195143546
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages469 pages
- Size 260x187x28 mm
- Weight 1083 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Because medicine can preserve and restore health and function, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that a just society owes its members. Yet there is controversy over the scope of what should be provided, to whom, how, when and why. This comprehensive and authoritative book - by well-known philosophers, doctors, lawyers, political scientists, and economists - lays a theoretical foundation for understanding the debate, assesses how health care is distributed in different
countries and to various social groups, and analyzes practical issues in constructing a socially just health care system.
Long description:
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 comprehensive book 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 theoretical basis for understanding the subject 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 into the dilemmas that confront those designing health care systems - the politics, the priorities, and the place of desires as opposed to needs in a socially just
scheme.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Theoretical Foundations
Justice, Health and Health Care
Justice and the Basic Structure of Health Care Systems
Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism Seriously
Utalitarian Approaches to Justice in Health Care
Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making
Why There is No Right to Health Care
Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care
Part 2: Rationing and Access in Today's World
Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process
Healthcare Justice and Agency
Treatment According to Need: Justice and the British National Health Service
Rationing Decisions: Integrating Cost-Effectiveness with Other Values
Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the United Kingdom
Justice and the Social Reality of Health: The Case of Australia
Justice for All? The Scandinavian Approach
Ethics, Politics, and Priorities in the Italian Health Care System
Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Trials in Developing Countries
Part 3: Special Needs of Social Groups
Racial Groups, Distrust and the Distribution of Health Care
Gender Justice in the Health Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes
Bedside Justice and Disability: Personalizing Judgment, Preserving Impartiality
The Medical, the Mental, and the Dental: Vicissitudes of Stigma and Compassion
Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal
Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice
Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care
Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation
Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty
Part 4: Dilemmas for Medicine and Health Care Systems: Assessment and Priorities
Alternative Health Care: Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access
Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation
Priority to the Worse Off in Health Care Resource Prioritizations
Whether to discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource
Disability, Justice, and Health Systems Performance Assessment
Responsibility for Health Status
Does Distributive Justice Require Universal Access to Assisted Reproduction?
Premature and Compromised Neonates
Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome?
