Justice and Health Care
Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades. The prolifer ation of courses in bioethics at educational institutions of every description gives testimony to an intense academic interest in its concern...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I / Historical and Conceptual Background
- Justice: A Philosophical Review
- Justice and Rights: A Study in Relationship
- Justice and Health Care: A Theological Review
- Justice and Health Care: Historical Perspectives and Precedents
- Section II / Issues of Micro-Allocation
- Do Justice, Love Mercy: The Inappropriateness of the Concept of Justice Applied to Bedside Decisions
- Justice and Prenatal Life
- Justice and the Defective Newborn
- Justice and the Dying
- Section III / Issues Of Macro-Allocation
- Health Care Allocations: Responses to the Unjust, the Unfortunate, and the Undesirable
- Priorities in the Allocation of Health Care Resources
- Health Care for the Haves and Have-nots: Toward a Just Basis of Distribution
- Cost Containment and Justice
- Justice and Human Research
- Justice and the Claims of Future Generations
- Justice: A Moral Test for Health Care and Health Policy
- Notes on Contributors