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53Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well OffJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (2): 156-171. 2011.What does it mean to be a “just” and “caring” society in meeting the health care needs of the terminally ill when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? That question is the focus of this essay. Put another way: relative to all the other health care needs in our society, especially the need for lifesaving or life-prolonging health care, how high a priority ought the health care needs of persons who are terminally ill have? On the one hand, we might see the …Read more
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33Four Volumes in Health Care Ethics (review)Teaching Philosophy 36 (1): 59-70. 2013.This review discusses four recently published textbooks in health care ethics. The theme I emphasize here is that the more common health care ethics issues addressed in these texts are of enormous personal, political and professional relevance today. More specifically, these issues have been enormously socially divisive, as the rhetoric about “death panels” illustrates. A course in health care ethics ought to provide students (future citizens in a liberal, pluralistic, democratic society) with t…Read more
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13The Price of Compromise: The Massachusetts Health Care ReformHastings Center Report 37 (1): 4. 2007.
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24Civil Disobedience and Moral Law in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy. By Edward H. Madden (review)Modern Schoolman 46 (4): 367-368. 1969.
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26The Costs of Caring: Who Pays? Who Profits? Who Panders?Hastings Center Report 36 (3): 13-17. 2006.
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25Mary HM Bach is a student in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, Seattle. Keith A. Bauer, MSW, is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy/Medical Ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His dissertation addresses the ethics and social dimensions of home-based telemedicine, the use of infor (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 123-124. 2001.
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44Just Caring: Defining a Basic Benefit PackageJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 36 (6): 589-611. 2011.What should be the content of a package of health care services that we would want to guarantee to all Americans? This question cannot be answered adequately apart from also addressing the issue of fair health care rationing. Consequently, as I argue in this essay, appeal to the language of "basic," "essential," "adequate," "minimally decent," or "medically necessary" for purposes of answering our question is unhelpful. All these notions are too vague to be useful. Cost matters. Effectiveness ma…Read more
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120Deliberative democracy for bioethics: could the web help?Hastings Center Report 31 (4): 7. 2001.
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57Whoopie Pies, Supersized FriesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (1): 5-19. 2012.The annual cost of healthcare in the United States reached $2.5 trillion in 2009 (about 17.6% of GDP) with projections to 2019 of about $4.5 trillion (about 20% of likely GDP).
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15MiscellaneousHastings Center Report 32 (2): 35-36. 2012.It's not only necessary, but possible, if the public can be educated.
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36Just Solidarity: The Key to Fair Health Care RationingDiametros 43 44-54. 2015.I agree with Professor ter Meulen that there is no need to make a forced choice between “justice” and “solidarity” when it comes to determining what should count as fair access to needed health care. But he also asserts that solidarity is more fundamental than justice. That claim needs critical assessment. Ter Meulen recognizes that the concept of solidarity has been criticized for being excessively vague. He addresses this criticism by introducing the more precise notion of “humanitarian solida…Read more
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21Just Caring: Health Care Rationing, Terminal Illness, and the Medically Least Well offJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (2): 156-171. 2011.What does it mean to be a “just” and “caring” society in meeting the health care needs of the terminally ill when we have only limited resources to meet virtually unlimited health care needs? This is the question that will be the focus of this essay. Another way of asking our question would be the following: Relative to all the other health care needs in our society, especially the need for lifesaving or life-prolonging health care, how high a priority ought the health care needs of persons who …Read more
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22Healthcare justice and rational democratic deliberationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (2). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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24Children and Organ Donation: Some Cautionary RemarksCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (2): 161-166. 2004.My task is to provide some critical commentary on the preceding essays. My unfortunate conclusion will be that the issues that are their primary focus are more likely to become more ethically intractable over the next several years as medicine progresses. I do not see any easy or obvious way to avoid this conclusion
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21The Great Awakening: How to Accomplish the Reform That Justice RequiresHastings Center Report 38 (2): 4-4. 2008.
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30Bette Anton, MLS, is Head Librarian of the Pamela and Kenneth Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library. This library serves the University of California, Berkeley–University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Pro-gram and the University of California, Berkeley School of OptometryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 117-118. 2004.
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41Just health care : Is beneficence enough?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 10 (2). 1989.Few in our society believe that access to health care should be determined primarily by ability to pay. We believe instead that society has an obligation to assure access to adequate health care for all. This is the view explicitly endorsed in the President's Commission Report Securing Access to Health Care. But there is an important moral ambiguity here, for this obligation may be construed as being either beneficence-based or justice -based. A beneficience-based construal would yield a much we…Read more
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13Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome?In Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Oup Usa. pp. 446. 2002.
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41DRGs: Justice and the invisible rationing of health care resourcesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (2): 165-196. 1987.Are DRGs just? This is the primary question which this essay will answer. But there is a prior methodological question that also needs to be addressed: How do we go about rationally (non-arbitrarily) assessing whether DRGs are just or not? I would suggest that grand, ideal theories of justice (Rawls, Nozick) have only very limited utility for answering this question. What we really need is a theory of “interstitial justice,” that is, an approach to making justice judgments that is suitable to as…Read more
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21Whoopie Pies, Supersized FriesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (1): 5-19. 2012.The annual cost of healthcare in the United States reached $2.5 trillion in 2009 (about 17.6% of GDP) with projections to 2019 of about $4.5 trillion (about 20% of likely GDP).
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