Ruud Ter Meulen

Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for academics and policymakers working in health and social care, this timely book takes the debate on healthcare access beyond the usual framework of justice and rights. In particular, it analyses the importance of collective responsibility for the care of vulnerable and dependent individuals in society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069800
• ISBN-10: 1107069807
• Artikelnr.: 48096510

Autorenporträt

Ruud ter Meulen is Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol. He was Director and Professor in Philosophy at the Institute of Bioethics and the Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands before moving to Bristol in 2005. He is editor-in-chief of the volume Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement (2017) and has published more than 150 articles, chapters and books in medical ethics. He was a visiting Scholar at the Hastings Centre and the Brocher Foundation, Switzerland, and is currently President of the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics (EACME).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Solidarity: backgrounds, concerns and claims
2. The origins of solidarity as a sociological concept
3. Solidarity and justice
4. Solidarity and individual responsibility in Dutch health care
5. Family solidarity and informal care
6. Why we need solidarity.