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Health care for an aging population / edited by Chris Hackler.
- Title
- Health care for an aging population / edited by Chris Hackler.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RA395.A3 H3957 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hackler, Chris.
- Description
- vi, 232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Health care rationing > United States > Congresses
- Aged
- United States
- Older people > Medical care > United States > Congresses
- Health care reform > United States > Congresses
- Health Care Rationing
- Congress
- Right to health > United States > Congresses
- Health Care Reform
- Medical care > Utilization > United States > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Congress.
- Note
- Consists mostly of rev. versions of papers from a conference held in Little Rock, Ark., Apr. 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Health Care Reform for an Aging Population / Chris Hackler -- 1. Generational Equity in America: A Cultural Historian's Perspective / Thomas R. Cole -- 2. Between the Generations: Justice and Peace as Alternatives to Age-Based Rationing / Stephen G. Post -- 3. Justice within the Family / John R. Hardwig -- 4. Technological Determinism despite the Reality of Scarcity: A Neglected Element in the Theory of Spending for Medical and Health Care / James M. Buchanan -- 5. Understanding Callahan / Janet A. Coy and Jonathan Schonsheck -- 6. Justice, Age Rationing, and the Problem of Identifiable Lives / Leonard M. Fleck -- 7. Age Cut-Offs for Health Care Entitlement: The Missing Moral Level / Howard Brody -- 8. Callahan's Medical Rationing Principle: Age or Quality of Life? / Sharon E. Sytsma -- 9. Designing Ethical Alternatives to Age-Based Rationing / Nancy S. Jecker and Robert A. Pearlman -- 10. A Values Framework for Health System Reform / Reinhard Priester.
- 11. Limits and Equal Access to Basic Health Care: Suggestions for Comprehensive Reform / Robert J. Barnet -- 12. Just Caring: Lessons from Oregon and Canada / Leonard M. Fleck -- 13. Future of Long-Term Care / Robert L. Kane -- 14. Taking the Next Steps: Devising a Good Lifespan for the Elderly / Daniel Callahan.
- ISBN
- 0791419991 (acid-free)
- 0791420000 (acid-free : pbk.)
- LCCN
- 93037845
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries