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Medicine and Social Justice - Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Medicine and Social Justice - Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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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
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