Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age

The Moral Dimensions

Eric Matthews, Elizabeth Russell

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781846190001
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498799881
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

"Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age" explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics, philosophy, economics, and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful, as will public health specialists, health economists, and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine. The authors of this book have opened up significant new perspectives on many important issues which in practice confront politicians, managers, professionals, patients and the public today. They have done this moreover in a way that is highly accessible to a non-specialist readership.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• About the authors
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• The Nuffield Trust
• List of Trustees
• 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
• Appendix 1. NHS principles and priorities, 1942 – 2003
• Appendix 2. Justice and solidarity with the old – two complementarymoral concerns in healthcare
• Appendix 3. Justice and the Nordic healthcare systems
• References
• Back Cover