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Rights to Health Care

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Thomas J. Bole

    1. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA

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  2. William B. Bondeson

    1. School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 38)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care

    1. The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care

      • Thomas J. Bole III
      Pages 1-19

  3. Rights to Health Care: The Development of the Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. The Right to Health Care: Reflections on Its History and Politics

      • Theodore R. Marmor
      Pages 23-49

  4. The Right to Health Care: Presentation and Critique

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy

      • Tom L. Beauchamp
      Pages 53-81

    3. Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account

      • Robert M. Veatch
      Pages 83-102

    4. Rights to Health Care: Created, Not Discovered

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 103-111

    5. Why the Right to Health Care is Not a Useful Concept for Policy Debates

      • Baruch A. Brody
      Pages 113-131

  5. A Qualified Right to Health Care: Toward a Notion of a Decent Minimum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Rights, Reforms, and the Health Care Crisis: Problems and Prospects

      • Thomas Halper
      Pages 135-168

    3. Rights, Obligations, and the Special Importance of Health Care

      • Allen E. Buchanan
      Pages 169-184

    4. Access to Health Care: Charity and Rights

      • George J. Agich
      Pages 185-198

  6. Equality, Free Markets, and the Elderly

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Equal Opportunity and Health Care Rights for the Elderly

      • Norman Daniels
      Pages 201-212

    3. Free Markets, Consumer Choice, and the Poor: Some Reasons for Caution

      • Nancy K. Rhoden
      Pages 213-241

    4. My Right to Care for my Health — And What About the Needy and the Elderly?

      • Hans-Martin Sass
      Pages 243-255

  7. Health Care as a Commodity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Should Medicine be a Commodity? An Economist’s Perspective

      • David Friedman
      Pages 259-305

    3. The Profit Motive in Kant and Hegel

      • Klaus Hartmann
      Pages 307-325
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About this book

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 the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA

    Thomas J. Bole

  • School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

    William B. Bondeson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rights to Health Care

  • Editors: Thomas J. Bole, William B. Bondeson

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28295-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1137-9Published: 31 July 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-4092-0Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-28295-4Published: 23 August 2007

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 382

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Economics, general, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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