9780199744206-0199744203-Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care

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

ISBN-13: 9780199744206
ISBN-10: 0199744203
Edition: 2
Author: Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, Margaret Battin
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 576 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199744206
ISBN-10: 0199744203
Edition: 2
Author: Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, Margaret Battin
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 576 pages

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Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (ISBN-13: 9780199744206 and ISBN-10: 0199744203), written by authors Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, Margaret Battin, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Health Care Delivery (Administration & Medicine Economics, Health Risk Assessment, Public Health, Medical Ethics, Medicine, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Health Care Delivery books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.58.

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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.

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