Jessica L. Roberts, Elizabeth Weeks

Healthism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines when and why discrimination based on health status - or 'healthism' - should be allowed, and when it should not.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781107160385
• ISBN-10: 1107160383
• Artikelnr.: 52159777

Autorenporträt

Jessica L. Roberts directs the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. A noted expert on diverse issues of health law, she has been interviewed by the BBC World Service, the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, and National Public Radio. She has participated in a congressional briefing on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, presented at NASA, and served as a consultant for the Football Players Health Study at Harvard. Professor Roberts is also a Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and a Health Policy Scholar with Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is healthism?
2. Understanding healthism
3. Limits of antidiscrimination and privacy laws
4. Limits of health insurance law
5. Limits of private law
6. Testing healthism.