Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care

Cover
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Theoretical Foundations
	1. Justice, Health, and Health Care
	2. Justice, Liberty, and the Choice of Health-System Structure
	3. A Utilitarian Approach to Justice in Health Care
	4. Justice Pluralism: Resource Allocation in Medicine and Public Health
	5. Health Risk and Health Security
	6. Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health Care Decision-Making
	7. Why There Is No Right to Health Care
	8. Equality, Democracy, and the Human Right to Health Care
PART II: Access and Rationing
	9. Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process
	10. Justice of and Within Health Care Finance
	11. Setting Priorities for a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care
	12. Why Justice Requires Rationing in Health Care
	13. Priority to the Worse Off in Health Care Resource Prioritization
	14. Whether to Discontinue Non futile Use of a Scarce Resource
	15. Responsibility for Health Status
	16. Health Care Justice and Political Agency 2011
	17. Allocating Health Care Resources in the UK: Putting Principles into Practice
	18. Global Health, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
	19. Equal Access to Health Care Under the UN Disability Rights Convention
PART III: Populations
	20. Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty
	21. Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care
	22. Gender Justice in the Health Care System: An Elusive Goal
	23. Justice for Gay and Lesbian People in Health Care
	24. Health Care Justice for the Chronically Ill and Disabled: A Defi ciency in Justice Theory and How to Cure It
	25. Getting from Here to There: Claiming Justice for the Severely Cognitively Disabled
	26. Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status
	27. Health Care Reform and Children’s Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal
	28. Premature and Compromised Neonates
	29. Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice
	30. Health Care for Soldiers
	31. Social Justice and Correctional Health Services
PART IV: Dilemmas and Priorities
	32. Are Pre-existing Condition Exclusion Clauses Just? Lessons from Causal and Ethical Considerations Regarding Genetic Testing
	33. Oral and Mental Health Services
	34. Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access: Alternative Health Care
	35. Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care
	36. Justice in Research on Human Subjects
	37. Just Genetics: The Ethical Challenges of Personalized Medicine
	38. Expanded Newborn Screening: Contemporary Challenges to the Parens Patriae Doctrine and the Use of Public Resources
	39. Justice, Profound Neurological Injury, and Brain Death
	40. Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation
	41. Justice in Planning for Pandemics and Disasters
	42. Justice Has (Almost) Nothing to Do With It: Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform
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