Health Care Systems - Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy

List of contents

Value Conflicts in Allocation and Care.- National Health Care Systems: Conflicting Visions.- National Health Care Systems: Concurring Conflicts.- National Health Care Systems.- An Ethical Evaluation of Health Care in the United States.- The Health Care System of the Federal Republic of Germany: Moral Issues and Public Policy.- The American and West German Health Care Systems: A Physician's Reflections.- Socialism, Equity, and Cost Containment in Health: The French Experience.- Ethics and Health Policy in the Netherlands.- Health in the U.S.S.R.: Organization, Trends, and Ethics.- The Public and Private Regulation of Health Care Markets.- Justice as Fairness or Fairness as Prudence?.- Macro-Allocation and Micro-Allocation.- Macro-Allocation in Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany.- The Macro-Allocation of Health Care Resources.- Rights, Reasonable Expectations, and Rationing: A Commentary on the Essays of Ruth Mattheis and Baruch Brody.- Political-Medical Allocations in the Compulsory Health Insurance Program in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Micro-Allocation in the Health Care System: Fiscal Consolidation with Structural Reforms?.- Medical Micro-Allocation: Is and Ought.- Preventive Medicine, Occupational Health, and Future Issues.- Preventive Interventionism and Individual Liberty.- Improving Occupational Health in the Federal Republic of Germany.- A View from a Clinician's Window.- Epilogue.

Product details

• Assisted by: R. U. Massey (Editor), R.U. Massey (Editor), Hans-Marti Sass (Editor), Hans-Martin Sass (Editor), U Massey (Editor), U Massey (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9781556080456
• ISBN: 978-1-55608-045-6
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 24 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 730 g
• Illustrations: XX, 370 p.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine; Philosophy and Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine