Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age: The Moral Dimensions

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CRC Press, 08.10.2018 - 176 Seiten
"Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age" explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics, philosophy, economics, and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful, as will public health specialists, health economists, and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine. The authors of this book have opened up significant new perspectives on many important issues which in practice confront politicians, managers, professionals, patients and the public today. They have done this moreover in a way that is highly accessible to a non-specialist readership.
 

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1 Perceptions of crisis
1
2 The costs of ageing
9
3 The moral foundations of publicly 8211 funded medical care
21
4 Ethics and the crisis
31
5 Daniels and the Prudential Lifespan Account
43
6 Ethics and resource allocation
53
7 Callahan and the significance of age
63
8 A critique of Callahan
77
9 A crisis of ageing?
91
10 Policy implications
101
Appendix 1 NHS principles and priorities 1942 8211 2003
107
Appendix 2 Justice and solidarity with the old 8211 two complementarymoral concerns in healthcare
121
Appendix 3 Justice and the Nordic healthcare systems
135
References
149
Back Cover
156
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Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Professor of Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Psychiatry, University of Aberdeen; Ereritus Professor of Social Medicine, University of Aberdeen

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