Health care and the ethics of encounter : a Jewish discussion of social justice

Health care and the ethics of encounter : a Jewish discussion of social justice / Laurie Zoloth.

The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health c...

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Main Author: Zoloth, Laurie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Health care rationing > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Right to health > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Distributive justice > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Judaism.
Social justice.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
Social justice
Judaism
Right to health > Religious aspects > Judaism
Health care rationing > Religious aspects > Judaism
Distributive justice > Religious aspects > Judaism
Medizinische Versorgung
Jüdische Ethik
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I.A Crisis in Health Care and a Challenge in Ethics
  • 1. Language, Narrative, and Desire: What We Yearn For
  • Notes
  • 2. Oregon: A Conversation Once Entered
  • Why Care about Oregon?
  • Oregon Faces the Economic Downturn
  • Provision and Community: How Health Care Is Organized, or Working for Health Benefits
  • Providing for the Other America: The Medicaid Project
  • The Crisis Unfolds in the States
  • The Oregon Narrative
  • The OHD: A Commitment to Civic Discourse.
  • Saying the First No: The Legislature Takes the First Turn at Prioritization
  • The OHD Project: The Second Prioritization Discussion
  • The Fred Meyer Trust Project: The Third Prioritization
  • The Citizens' Principles
  • Assessing the Values of the Discourse
  • The Oregon Legislature's Response: The Fourth Discussion of Priorities
  • The HSC: The Fifth Discussion
  • Notes
  • 3. The Embodied Discourse of Health Care: Oregon Reconsidered
  • Addressing the Normative Problem in Justice: Health Care as a Case in Point
  • Framing the Scope of the Problem of Justice in Health Care.
  • Justice and the Problem of Scarcity
  • The Current Debate: Two Schools
  • Autonomy and Beneficence: Rationing Is Not Moral
  • The Commonweal: Rafioning Is Morally Necessary
  • Assessment of the Oregon Plan
  • What Is Wrong with the Plan
  • What Is Right with the Plan
  • Notes
  • 4. Naming the Terrain: The Language of Liberal Justice and Its Claims
  • The Formal Principle of Justice
  • Beyond the Formal Theory
  • The Libertarian Theory of Justice
  • Free Holdings and the Problem of Inclusion
  • The Utilitarian Theory of Justice
  • The Problem of the Majority.
  • The implication of the Public-Private Split
  • The Problem of the Good
  • The Problem of Evil
  • Deontology: Duties and the Matrix of Promises
  • John Rawls: The Promise of Fairness
  • Egalitarian Theories of Justice
  • Summary of Justice Approaches Based in Liberal Theory
  • Foundational Constraints on All Theories: Scarcity Is Prior to Theory
  • Different Terms of the Discourse
  • Notes
  • 5. The Moral Location of the Self: The Languages of the Alternative Discourse
  • The Central Problem: Autonomy and the Entirely Free Self
  • An Alternate Model of Community and Citizenship.
  • The Nature of the Ideal Moral Agent
  • The Moral Agent in the Community
  • The Language of Rights, Entitlement, and Need
  • Need, Provision, and Membership
  • The Concept of Rationality
  • Communicative Ethics
  • Summary of Challenges to Liberal Theory
  • Notes
  • Part II. The Texts and the Method: Jewish Ethics as Encounter
  • 6. The Discourse Itself: Method, Text, and Covenant
  • Responsibility and Relationship: Introduction and Starting Points
  • A Framing Issue: Feminism
  • Three Postulates: The Centrality of the Daily, the Necessity of Argument, and the Fundamentality of Exile.

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