Setting health-care priorities : what ethical theories tell us /

Tannsjo here approaches the question of how to allocate limited health-care resources from a philosophical perspective. He balanaces theoretical treatments of distributive ethics with real-world examples of how health-care is administered around the world today, arguing for the controversial positio...

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Main Author: Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Tannsjo here approaches the question of how to allocate limited health-care resources from a philosophical perspective. He balanaces theoretical treatments of distributive ethics with real-world examples of how health-care is administered around the world today, arguing for the controversial position that we ought to direct more resources to the care and cure of people suffering from mental illness, and less to the marginal life extension of elderly patients.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 212 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190946913
0190946911
9780190946890
019094689X