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Ethical Choices in Long-Term Care What Does Justice Require?: The Cross-Cluster Initiative on Long-term Care

By World Health Organization

Book information

Publisher
World Health Organization
Year
2002
ISBN
9241562285, 9789241562287, 9780585473178
Open Library ID
OL12898363M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
670 kB (685968 bytes)
Series
World Health Organization Collection on Long-Term Care
Pages
91\104
Topic
Business Management
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

To contribute to the dialogue about how best to achieve equitable, fair, rational, and transparent decisions, this report addresses the social and ethical basis of long-term care, identifying the key issues in caring for persons with chronic illnesses and disabilities. It provides a framework of analysis that specifies the issues and stakeholders intrinsic to redesigning long-term health care systems. The report includes a commissioned paper by the distinguished philosopher Martha Nussbaum, which illuminates the need to expand theories of justice and social contract to encompass social responsibility for care. Together with the responses of Norman Daniels and Eva Kittay, they collectively provide a theoretical lens for rethinking issues of fairness in allocating social resources of all kinds.

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