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Rationing medical care on the basis of age : the moral dimensions / Eric Matthews and Elizabeth Russell ; foreword by Kenneth Boyd.
- Title
- Rationing medical care on the basis of age : the moral dimensions / Eric Matthews and Elizabeth Russell ; foreword by Kenneth Boyd.
- Author
- Matthews, Eric, 1936-
- Publication
- Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe, c2005.
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| Text | Request in advance | RA413.7.A4 M27 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 159 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Aged
- Discrimination in medical care > Great Britain
- Great Britain. National Health Service
- Health Care Rationing > ethics
- Health care rationing > Great Britain
- Health care rationing > Moral and ethical aspects > Great Britain
- Health care rationing > Moral and ethical aspects
- Older people > Medical care > Great Britain
- Population Dynamics
- Social Justice > ethics
- State Medicine > ethics
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- Note
- Published in association with the Nuffield Trust.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Perceptions of crisis -- 2. The costs of ageing -- 3. The moral foundations of publicly-funded medical care -- 4. Ethics and the 'crisis' -- 5. Daniels and the 'prudential lifespan account' -- 6. Ethics and resource allocation -- 7. Callahan and the significance of age -- 8. A critique of Callahan -- 9. A crisis of ageing? -- 10. Policy implications -- App. 1. NHS principles and priorities, 1942-2003 / David Austin -- App. 2. Justice and solidarity with the old -- two complementary moral concerns in healthcare / Mats Hansson -- App. 3. Justice and the Nordic healthcare systems / Vilhjalmur Arnason.
- ISBN
- 1846190002 (pbk.)
- 9781846190001
- OCLC
- 61177317
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library