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| ISBN: | 1429400994
9781429400992
0195052714
9780195052718
0195052722
9780195052725
1280523417
9781280523410
9786610523412
661052341X
0199748675
9780199748679
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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| Summary: | This book provides a moral evaluation of American health care. It is in three main parts: a review and analysis of conditions bearing on access to quality health care, a philosophical analysis and defence of the concept of a moral right to health care, and a discussion of various policy alternatives for reform of the US system for delivering health care. The first chapter demonstrates that many Americans, especially among blacks, persons from low income families, and those with less education, are underserved by the present system. Persons in these groups have significantly worse health characteristics than other Americans. Do these persons have a right to health care? If so, to what kinds of care and how much? In part two, four contemporary theories of justice and of peoples' rights - utilitarianism, egalitarianism, libertarianism, and contractarianism - are examined and their implications for a right to health care described. Each theory is then discussed in terms of a right to health care that encompasses non-interference with one's health, primary care, curative care under some circumstances, and the freedom to buy additional health care not guaranteed by right.; What is to be done? This is the central question of the third part, which examines and evaluates alternative directions for reform of the American health care system.
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| Other form: | Print version: Dougherty, Charles J., 1949- American health care. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988
Online version: Dougherty, Charles J., 1949- American health care. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988
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