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Efficiency, Justice and Care: Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care

Efficiency, Justice and Care: Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care

Denier, Yvonne

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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, Book 33

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 9048173116
ISBN13: 9789048173112
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 10 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care. These are pressing issues: one way or another, limits have to be set. As such, the question of what is involved in just health care becomes much more complex. This complexity can be represented as an inconsistent triad, a set of three propositions of which any two are compatible but which together form a contradiction. In the case of health care, the three rival values are: social efficiency, justice, and decent-quality care. It seems to be that we can have any two but not all three. Essentially, the central question is the following: how best to square the proverbial welfare circle. How can resources be matched to needs, or needs to resources in socially acceptable and economically feasible ways?

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