Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy

✍ Scribed by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (auth.), Hans-Martin Sass, Robert U. Massey (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 377
Series: Philosophy and Medicine 30
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
National Health Care Systems: Conflicting Visions....Pages 3-13
National Health Care Systems: Concurring Conflicts....Pages 15-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
An Ethical Evaluation of Health Care in the United States....Pages 39-58
The Health Care System of the Federal Republic of Germany: Moral Issues and Public Policy....Pages 59-74
The American and West German Health Care Systems: A Physician’s Reflections....Pages 75-83
Socialism, Equity, and Cost Containment in Health: The French Experience....Pages 85-96
Ethics and Health Policy in the Netherlands....Pages 97-116
Health in the U.S.S.R.: Organization, Trends, and Ethics....Pages 117-132
The Public and Private Regulation of Health Care Markets....Pages 133-166
Justice as Fairness or Fairness as Prudence?....Pages 167-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Macro-Allocation in Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 201-212
The Macro-Allocation of Health Care Resources....Pages 213-236
Rights, Reasonable Expectations, and Rationing: A Commentary on the Essays of Ruth Mattheis and Baruch Brody....Pages 237-253
Political-Medical Allocations in the Compulsory Health Insurance Program in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 255-265
Micro-Allocation in the Health Care System: Fiscal Consolidation with Structural Reforms?....Pages 267-291
Medical Micro-Allocation: Is and Ought....Pages 293-311
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Preventive Interventionism and Individual Liberty....Pages 315-322
Improving Occupational Health in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 323-344
A View from a Clinician’s Window....Pages 345-351
Epilogue....Pages 353-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-369

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Economic Growth; Public Health; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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