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Solidarity in Health and Social Care in Europe

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Editors:
  1. Ruud Meulen

    1. Institute for Bioethics, Department of Caring Sciences, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. Wil Arts

    1. Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tilburg KUB, The Netherlands

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  3. Ruud Muffels

    1. Department of Organisation Studies, Policy Sciences and Sociology, University of Tilburg KUB, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 69)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Solidarity, Health and Social Care in Europe Introduction to the Volume

    1. Solidarity, Health and Social Care in Europe Introduction to the Volume

      • Ruud ter Meulen, Wil Arts, Ruud Muffels
      Pages 1-11

  3. Solidarity As A Public Value Empirical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Modernisation, Solidarity and Care in Europe the Sociologist’s Tale

      • Wil Arts, Rudi Verburg
      Pages 15-39

    3. Popular Support for Health Care in Europe Review of the Evidence of Cross-National Surveys

      • Josette Gevers, John Gelissen, Wil Arts, Ruud Muffels
      Pages 41-76

    4. Solidarity and Care in Sweden

      • Åke Bergmark, Elisabet Lindberg, Mats Thorslund
      Pages 77-105

    5. Solidarity and Care in the United Kingdom

      • Malcolm Johnson, Lesley Cullen
      Pages 107-131

    6. Solidarity and Care In Italy

      • Christiano Gori, Nicola Pasini
      Pages 133-157

    7. Solidarity and Care in Germany

      • Adalbert Evers, Martina Klein
      Pages 159-188

    8. Solidarity and Care in Austria

      • Kai Leichsenring, Gerhard Majce, Sabine Pleschberger
      Pages 189-227

    9. Solidarity and Care in the Netherlands

      • Jan van der Made, Ruud ter Meulen, Masja van den Burg
      Pages 229-253

    10. Reforms in Health and Social Care in Europe: The Challenge to Policy

      • Ruud Muffels, Rudi Verburg
      Pages 255-276

  4. Solidarity As A Moral Concept Philosophical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Reconsidering Solidarity by Conceptual Analysis

      • Rob Houtepen, Ruud ter Meulen
      Pages 279-286

    3. Solidarity and Indifference

      • Rahel Jaeggi
      Pages 287-308

    4. Solidarity, Citizenship and Selective Distributive Justice in Health Care

      • Nicola Pasini, Massimo Reichlin
      Pages 309-331

    5. Organ Transplantation in Italy: Forced Solidarity?

      • Massimo Reichlin
      Pages 333-338

    6. Beyond Justice and Moralism: Modernity and Solidarity in the Health Care System

      • Rob Houtepen, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Widdershoven
      Pages 339-363

    7. Personal Budgets for the Elderly: A Case Study in Dutch Solidarity

      • Rob Houtepen, Ruud ter Meulen
      Pages 365-371

    8. Solidarity in Universal Welfare — The Case of Sweden

      • Åke Bergmark
      Pages 373-395
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OF 'SOLIDARITY' IN UK SOCIAL WELFARE Here then, perhaps, is a British version of solidarity in social welfare, but early there are strong tensions between the powerfully liberal individualistic strands of the British understanding of the functions of the state and the socialistic or communitarian tendency of a commitment to universal welfare provision. In the search for the roots of this understanding of welfare we shall survey, fitst, the historical background to these tensions in some early British political philosophers, starting with Hobbes and ending with Mill. We then consider the philosophical and social influences on the Beveridge Report itself, and we will trace the emergence of the philosophy of the welfare state in the era following the Second World War. Finally we consider the contemporary debate, as it relates to the 'Third Way' thinking of New Labour. 2. A mSTORICAL SKETCH In the previous section we observed that the philosophy underlying the Beveridge Report could be described as 'liberal collectivism'. What are the historical antecedents of this strange amalgam of individualism and collectivism? Within the short scope of this chapter, any account of the philosophical history must be little more than a sketch, but we can perhaps understand most debates in British socio-political thought as a continuing dialogue with the well known claim of Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan that all political institutions are founded on egoistic motives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Bioethics, Department of Caring Sciences, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Ruud Meulen

  • Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tilburg KUB, The Netherlands

    Wil Arts

  • Department of Organisation Studies, Policy Sciences and Sociology, University of Tilburg KUB, The Netherlands

    Ruud Muffels

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