Medicine and Social Justice

Essays on the Distribution of Health Care
2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-974420-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1072 g

Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss what
social justice in medicine should be. Their contributions deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run through the contemporary debate. The forty-two chapters in this reorganized second edition of Medicine and Social Justice update and expand upon the thirty-four
chapters of the 2002 first edition. Eighteen chapters from the original volume are revised to address policy changes and challenging issues that have emerged in the intervening decade. Twenty-two of the chapters in this edition are entirely new. The treatment of foundational theory and conceptual issues related to access to health care and rationing medical resources have been expanded to provide a more comprehensive and nuanced discussion of the background concepts that underlie
distributive justice debates, with global perspectives on health and well-being added. New additions to the section on health care justice for specific populations include chapters on health care for the chronically ill, soldiers, prisoners, the severely cognitively disabled, and the LGBT population. The
section devoted to dilemmas and priorities addresses an array of topics that have recently become especially pressing because of new technologies or altered policies. New chapters address questions of justice related to genetics, medical malpractice, research on human subjects, pandemic and disaster planning, newborn screening, and justice for the brain dead and those with profound neurological injury.

Reviews of the first edition:

"This compilation brings a variety of perspectives, national settings, and disciplinary backgrounds to the topic and provides a unique survey of theoretical and applied thinking about the connections between health care and social justice. Physicians and others interested in this field will find this book an engaging introduction to the theoretical and practical challenges pertaining to social justice and health care."
New England Journal of Medicine

"Although much work in bioethics has focused on clinical encounters, there has been a current of discussion about questions of social justice for decades-at least since the allocation of access to dialysis was widely understood in the 1960s to be a matter of justice, not of medical judgment. This volume will facilitate heightened awareness and deeper discussion of such issues." JAMA

"Impressively, the editors have chosen an array of essays that explore the philosophical and bioethical foundations of distributive justice; review the current practice of rationing and patients' access to care in a number of different countries; highlight the issues raised by various special needs groups; and then wrestle with some dilemmas in assessing priorities in distributing healthcare. This book is an excellent resource. " Doody's

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars in philosophy, medicine, law, and political science with an interest in medicine and social justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhodes, Rosamond

Battin, Margaret Pabst

Battin, Margaret

Silvers, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1 Norman Daniels Justice, Health, and Health Care
2 Paul T. Menzel Justice, Liberty, and the Choice of Health System Structure
3 Mark S. Stein A Utilitarian Approach to Justice in Health Care
4 Rosamond Rhodes Justice Pluralism: Resource Allocation in Medicine and Public Health
5 Jonathan Wolf Health Risk and Health Security
6 David Wasserman Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making
7 Stefan B. Baumrin Why There Is No Right to Health Care
8 Kristen Hessler Equality, Democracy, and the Human Right to Health Care
and Allen Buchanan
II. ACCESS AND RATIONING
9 Bruce Vladek and Elliot Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice and the
Fishman unchanged American Political Process
10 Stephen R. Latham Justice of and within Healthcare Finance
11 Paul T. Menzel Setting Priorities for a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care
12 Gopal Sreenivasan Why Justice Requires Rationing in Health Care
13 Dan W. Brock Priority to the Worse Off in Health Care Resource Prioritization
14 F.M. Kamm Whether to Discontinue Nonfutile Use of a Scarce Resource
Unchanged
15 Lance K. Stell Responsibility for Health Status
16 Patricia S. Mann Healthcare Justice and Political Agency 2011
17 Mark Sheehan &Tony Hope Allocating Healthcare Resources in the UK: Putting Principles into
Practice
18 John W. Lango Global Health, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
19 Michael Ashley Stein, Equal Access to Health Care Under the UN Disability Rights
Janet E. Lord, & Dorothy Weiss Convention
III. POPULATIONS
20 Patricia Smith Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty
unchanged
21 Howard McGary Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care
22 Rosemarie Tong Gender Justice in the Health Care System: An Elusive Goal
23 Timothy F. Murphy Justice for Gay and Lesbian People in Health Care
24 Anita Silvers Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients: A Deficiency in Bioethics and How to Cure It
25 Eva Feder Kittay Getting from Here to There: Claiming Justice for the Severely
Congnitively Disabled
26 David Wasserman Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status
and Jeff McMahan
27 Loretta M. Kopelman Health Care Reform and Children's Right to Health Care:
A Modest Proposal
28 Ian R. Holzman Premature and Compromised Neonates
29 Leslie Pickering Francis Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice
30 Fritz Allhoff Health Care for Soldiers
31 Kenneth Kipnis Social Justice and Correctional Health Services
IV. DILEMMAS AND PRIORITIES
32 Robert T. Pennock Are Pre-Existing Condition Exclusion Clauses Just?: Lessons from Causal and Ethical Considerations Regarding Genetic Testing
33 David Ozar and James Sabin Oral and Mental Health Services
34 E. Haavi Morreim Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access: Alternative Health
Care
35 James Lindemann Nelson Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities and Social
Justice in the Provision of Health Care
36 David R. Buchanan Justice in Research on Human Subjects
and Franklin G. Miller
37 Leonard M.Fleck Just Genetics: The Ethical Challenges of Personalized Medicine
38 Jeffrey Botkin, Rebecca Expanded Newborn Screening: Contemporary Challenges to the Parens Patriae Doctrine and the Use of Public Resources
Anderson and Erin Rothwell
39 James Hitt Justice, Profound Neurological Injury, and Brain Death
and Michael Nair-Collins
40 Rosamond Rhodes Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation
and Thomas Schiano
41 Leslie Francis and Justice in Planning for Pandemic & Disasters
Margaret P. Battin
42 David A. Hyman Justice Has (Almost) Nothing to Do With It: Medical Malpractice and
and Charles Silver Tort Reform

Über Autor(innen)

Rosamond Rhodes is Director of Bioethics Education at the Mt Sinai School of Medicine.

Margaret Battin is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Internal Medicine at the University of Utah.

Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.