Rights to Health Care

Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bole, Thomas J. (Editor), Bondeson, William B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1991.
Series:Philosophy and Medicine ; 38
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Table of Contents:
  • The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care
  • The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care
  • Rights to Health Care: The Development of the Concept
  • The Right to Health Care: Reflections on Its History and Politics
  • The Right to Health Care: Presentation and Critique
  • The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy
  • Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account
  • Rights to Health Care: Created, Not Discovered
  • Why the Right to Health Care is Not a Useful Concept for Policy Debates
  • A Qualified Right to Health Care: Toward a Notion of a Decent Minimum
  • Rights, Reforms, and the Health Care Crisis: Problems and Prospects
  • Rights, Obligations, and the Special Importance of Health Care
  • Access to Health Care: Charity and Rights
  • Equality, Free Markets, and the Elderly
  • Equal Opportunity and Health Care Rights for the Elderly
  • Free Markets, Consumer Choice, and the Poor: Some Reasons for Caution
  • My Right to Care for my Health Ớ And What About the Needy and the Elderly?
  • Health Care as a Commodity
  • Should Medicine be a Commodity? An EconomistỚ"s Perspective
  • The Profit Motive in Kant and Hegel
  • Virtue for Hire: Some Reflections on Free Choice and the Profit Motive in the Delivery of Health Care
  • Rights, Public Policy, and the State.