Efficiency, Justice and Care Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care /

• Main Author: Denier, Yvonne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 33
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medicine.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Public Health.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

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?...

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.