Setting Health-Care Priorities: What Ethical Theories Tell Us
Autor Torbjörn Tännsjöen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 aug 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190946883
ISBN-10: 0190946881
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190946881
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Setting health-care priorities is a thoughtful and clearly argued book on a question that continues to be critical for governments, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations. Tännsjö should therefore be congratulated for his contribution to bridging the gulf between abstract theory about distributive justice and the real-life task of setting healthcare priorities.
In Setting Health-Care Priorities, Torbjorn Tännsjö examines how the leading ethical theories answer the important practical question suggested in the title of his book. He reaches a startling conclusion: whether we are utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians or Rawlsians, we should agree that the way in which health care resources are allocated in all developed countries is wrong. We should spend less on the elderly, and on those suffering from rare diseases, and more on improving mental health. This book is a model of clear philosophical argument leading to an important practical conclusion. It is suitable for students and general readers, but I hope it will also be widely read by those in a position to influence health care policy.
A perfect example of how clear thinking and a clear objective lead to radically new priorities.
In Setting Health-Care Priorities, Torbjorn Tännsjö examines how the leading ethical theories answer the important practical question suggested in the title of his book. He reaches a startling conclusion: whether we are utilitarians, egalitarians, prioritarians or Rawlsians, we should agree that the way in which health care resources are allocated in all developed countries is wrong. We should spend less on the elderly, and on those suffering from rare diseases, and more on improving mental health. This book is a model of clear philosophical argument leading to an important practical conclusion. It is suitable for students and general readers, but I hope it will also be widely read by those in a position to influence health care policy.
A perfect example of how clear thinking and a clear objective lead to radically new priorities.
Notă biografică
Torbjörn Tännsjö has published extensively in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and bioethics. His most recent books are Understanding Ethics (Edinburgh UP), a simple introduction to normative ethics, and Taking Life: Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing (OUP, 2015).