W. R. Sheaff

The Need For Health Care (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The rhetoric of "needs" has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1938. This study identifies the ethical, policy, and technical issues arising from the concept of needs. In the first part a theory of needs is developed, which takes into account both the philosophical traditions and the practical problems arising in daily health care. In a second part, health systems throughout the world are described and compared, addressing ethical as well as economic querstions. Its interdisciplinary approach will make "The Need for" "Health Care" important reading not only for students of philosophy, but also for those interested in or employed in the health sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134854394
• Artikelnr.: 42726745

Autorenporträt

Rod Sheaff is a Fellow at the Health Services Management Unit, Manchester University. He has had working, research and consultancy experience both in the British NHS and many overseas health systems. He is the author of Marketing for Health Services (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

1 WHY A THEORY OF NEEDS? 1 Needs and health policy 2 The language and logic
of 'needs' 2 WHAT KIND OF THEORY OF NEEDS? 1 Needs in ethical theory 2
Needs and naturalism 3 Needs and drives 4 Newton and the neuron 3 NEEDS,
NATURE AND SOCIETY 1 Drives and their structure 2 Drives, actions and
capacities 3 Drives, reason and needs 4 Needs and relativism 4 HEALTH NEEDS
1 Needs and health 2 Personal and population health needs 3 Needs for
healthcare 4 Needless healthcare? 5 DOES DOCTOR KNOW BEST? 1 Doctors and
patients 2 Patients' needs 3 Clinical autonomy 6 NEEDS AND NORMALITY 1
Medical models of minds 2 Disorders and disorder 3 Involuntary healthcare 7
DILEMMAS FOR HEALTH WORKERS 1 Needs and 'business ethics' in healthcare 2
Scarcity 8 WHAT KIND OF HEALTH SYSTEM? 1 Comparing health systems 2 Health
needs and markets 3 Health system design: social engineering 9 NEEDS,
HEALTH AND MORALITY