The Need For Health Care

W.R. Sheaff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-10111-0 (ISBN)

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The rhetoric of 'needs' has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. 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 economical questions.
Its interdisciplinary approach will make The Need for Healthcare important reading not only for those interested in or employed in the health care sector but also for students of philosophy.

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).

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.8.1996
Reihe/Serie	Social Ethics and Policy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-10111-5 / 0415101115
ISBN-13	978-0-415-10111-0 / 9780415101110
Zustand	Neuware