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Allocating Health Care Resources

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. James M. Humber

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Robert F. Almeder

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Part of the book series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews (BER)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Better Health Care Through Rationing

    • Governor Richard D. Lamm
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Ethics of Health Care Rationing as a Strategy of Cost Containment

    • Lawrence W. White, Mary Ellen Waithe
    Pages 21-54

  4. Rationing, Rhetoric, and Rationality

    • Robert Baker
    Pages 55-84

  5. An Evaluation of Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

    • George W. Rainbolt
    Pages 85-120

  6. Health Care Allocation

    • John Douard
    Pages 121-144

  7. Hypothetical Choice Approaches to Health Care Allocation

    • Madison Powers
    Pages 145-176

  8. Sin Taxes as a Mechanism of Health Care Finance

    • Jeffrey P. Kahn
    Pages 177-202

  9. The Injustice of Age Bias Against Children in Allocating Health Care

    • Loretta M. Kopelman
    Pages 203-219

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 221-223
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About this book

In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan.

ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of interest to philosophers, health policy experts, medical ethicists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. It serves to clarify and illuminate the logic and rhetoric of health care reform, and so to help us all achieve a fair and equitable distribution of these precious resources.

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There is no better way to update oneself about the major issues of today's health care debate than to take up this excellent book. -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Allocating Health Care Resources

  • Editors: James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

  • Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-447-4

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-260-6Published: 11 January 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4479-8Published: 24 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-447-4Published: 11 January 1995

  • Series ISSN: 0742-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 223

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Public Health, Health Economics

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