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Author Fleck, Leonard M.

Title Just caring : health care rationing and democratic deliberation / Leonard M. Fleck
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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 WATERFT HEALTH  362.10425 Fle/Jch  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 460 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Just Caring: An Introduction -- 2. The Ethical Challenges of Health Care Rationing -- 3. Pricing Human Life: Getting Beyond Tragic Choices -- 4. Elements of Health Care Justice -- 5. Rational Democratic Deliberation: Scope and Structure -- 6. Setting Limits for Effective Costly Therapies -- 7. Last-Chance Therapies -- 8. Rationing, Catastrophic Illness, and Disabled Patients -- 9. Is Age-Based Rationing Ever "Just Enough"? -- 10. Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome? -- 11. Organ Transplantation: When Is Enough Enough? -- 12. The Liberalism Problem -- 13. The Ethical Challenges of Priority Setting in Public Health -- 14. Financing Health Care Fairly
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-446) and index
Subject 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.
Health Care Rationing.
Democracy.
Health Care Reform.
Health Priorities.
Healthcare Disparities.
Insurance, Health.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 2008040396
ISBN 9780195128048 hardback alkaline paper
0195128044 hardback alkaline paper