Achieving Justice in the U.S. Healthcare System Mercy is Sustainable; the Insatiable Thirst for Profit is Not /

• Main Author: Dyck, Arthur J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, 13
• Subjects: Ethics.; Medical education.; Bioethics.; Social medicine.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Moral Philosophy.; Medical Education.; Medical Sociology.; Philosophy of Medicine.

This book focuses on justice and its demands in the way of providing people with medical care. Building on recent insights on the nature of moral perceptions and motivations from the neurosciences, it makes a case for the traditional medical ethic and examines its financial feasibility. The book sta...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. What Justice Demands
• Chapter 2. The Cognitive Bases for Deciding When Policies Are Just
• Chapter 3. Advocating Basic Minimum Medical Care: A Case of Justice Denied
• Chapter 4. Overdiagnosing, Overtesting, and Overmedicalizing Physical Conditions
• Chapter 5. Overdiagnosing, Overtesting, and Overmedicalizing Behavior and Feelings
• Chapter 6. Practices and Policies in the U.S. Health Care System That Are Scientifically and Ethically Unjustifiable: They Should Not and Cannot Persist
• Chapter 7. Suggesting Policies and Practices for Increasing Justice and Assuring the Sustainability of the U.S. Health Care System.