Efficiency, Justice and Care Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care
What does just health care imply? Does it mean that people have a right to health care? Does it entail that there are rights-based social obligations to provide equal access to health care for everyone? And if so, why? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection?...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Just Health Care: Presuppositions and Objectives
- Just Health Care: Core Issues
- Scarcity, Finitude and the Normative Value of Health
- Distributive Justice and Health Care
- Justice as Fairness: John Rawls
- Nussbaum's Approach: A Non-Contractarian Account of Care
- Setting Limits: Dworkin's Proposal
- General Conclusion: Health Care and the Limits of Human Existence
- Just Health Care: Foundations and Prospects