Just caring : health care rationing and democratic deliberation / Leonard M. Fleck.

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Fleck, Leonard M

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 460 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780199722891
0199722897

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just caring.DDC classification:

362.1/0425 22

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RA410.53 .F62 2009eb

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2009 D-837
WA 540 AA1

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Contents:

Just caring : an introduction -- The ethical challenges of health care rationing -- Pricing human life : getting beyond tragic choices -- Elements of health care justice -- Rational democratic deliberation : scope and structure -- Setting limits for effective costly therapies -- Last-chance therapies -- Rationing, catastrophic illness, and disabled patients -- Is age-based rationing ever 'just enough'? -- Do future possible children have a just claim for a sufficiently heathy genome? -- Organ transplantation : when is enough enough? -- The liberalism problem -- The ethical challenges of priority setting in public health -- Financing health care fairly.

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Summary: "In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He cites the millions of Americans who go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematurely, unable to afford the health care needed to save their lives. Fleck considers these deaths as contrary to our deepest social values, and makes a case for the necessity of health care rationing decisions. The core argument of this book is that no one has a moral right to impose rationing decisions on others if they are unwilling to impose those same rationing decisions on themselves in the same medical circumstances. Fleck argues we can make health care rationing fair, in ways that are mutually respectful, if we engage in honest rational democratic deliberation. Such civic engagement is rare in our society, but the alternative is endless destructive social controversy that is neither just nor caring."--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-446) and index.

"In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He cites the millions of Americans who go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematurely, unable to afford the health care needed to save their lives. Fleck considers these deaths as contrary to our deepest social values, and makes a case for the necessity of health care rationing decisions. The core argument of this book is that no one has a moral right to impose rationing decisions on others if they are unwilling to impose those same rationing decisions on themselves in the same medical circumstances. Fleck argues we can make health care rationing fair, in ways that are mutually respectful, if we engage in honest rational democratic deliberation. Such civic engagement is rare in our society, but the alternative is endless destructive social controversy that is neither just nor caring."--Publisher's description.

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