Health Care, Ethics and Insurance

Tom Sorell Ltd, Tom Sorell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-16284-5 (ISBN)

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This comprehensive and sometimes controversial book provides an essential survey of the key issues in health insurance. It is a valuable read for students and teachers of Business Studies as well as health professionals of all kinds.

This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability legislation and the ethics of private and public health insurance, this comprehensive and sometimes controversial book provides an essential survey of the key issues in health insurance. Divided into two parts, the first considers the ethics of underwriting, risk assessment and the acceptance and refusal of insurance risk by insurers. Discussing the unjust treatment of high-risk applicants, the authors identify sources of unfairness to both parties of the insurance contract, indicating how reasonable trade-offs can be made. The second part considers the argument for a mix of public and private insurance for acute and long-term care, offering recommendations for changes in the balance of social insurance, and discussing the shift toward long-term contracts in private health care and pension insurance.

Tom Sorell Ltd, Tom Sorell

List of tables, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. The ethics of underwriting, 1. The freedom to underwrite, 2. Freedom within limits: underwriting and ethics, 3. Genetics and ethics: the scientific background, 4. Genetics and insurance, 5. HIV and insurance, 6. Disability and insurance, PART II. Public or private provision?, 7. Ethical issues in social insurance for health, 8. More private health insurance is desirable and inevitable, 9. Equal access to health care: a problematic ideal, 10. Public or private? Insurance and pensions, 11. Assurance, pensioning and long-term care, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.1998
Reihe/Serie	Professional Ethics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre
ISBN-10	0-415-16284-X / 041516284X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-16284-5 / 9780415162845
Zustand	Neuware