Just caring : health care rationing and democratic deliberation / Leonard M. Fleck.

Just caring : health care rationing and democratic deliberation /

"In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He cites the millions of Americans who go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematurely, unable to afford the health care needed to save their lives. Fleck considers these...

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Main Author: Fleck, Leonard M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Health care rationing > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Public health > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Health services accessibility > United States.
Right to health > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Social justice > United States.
Democracy.
Health care reform.
Health insurance.
National health insurance.
Health Care Reform > United States.
Insurance, Health > United States.
Health Priorities > United States.
Health Care Rationing > United States.
Democracy > United States.
Healthcare Disparities > United States.
Health Care Rationing
Democracy
Health Care Reform
Health Priorities
Healthcare Disparities
Insurance, Health
National Health Programs
democracy.
United States
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Just caring : an introduction
  • The ethical challenges of health care rationing
  • Pricing human life : getting beyond tragic choices
  • Elements of health care justice
  • Rational democratic deliberation : scope and structure
  • Setting limits for effective costly therapies
  • Last-chance therapies
  • Rationing, catastrophic illness, and disabled patients
  • Is age-based rationing ever 'just enough'?
  • Do future possible children have a just claim for a sufficiently heathy genome?
  • Organ transplantation : when is enough enough?
  • The liberalism problem
  • The ethical challenges of priority setting in public health
  • Financing health care fairly.

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