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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Matthews; Elizabeth M Russell; Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services. |
| ISBN: | 1846190002 9781846190001 |
| OCLC Number: | 61177317 |
| Notes: | Published in association with the Nuffield Trust. |
| Description: | xvi, 159 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Perceptions of crisis -- 2. The costs of ageing -- 3. The moral foundations of publicly-funded medical care -- 4. Ethics and the 'crisis' -- 5. Daniels and the 'prudential lifespan account' -- 6. Ethics and resource allocation -- 7. Callahan and the significance of age -- 8. A critique of Callahan -- 9. A crisis of ageing? -- 10. Policy implications -- App. 1. NHS principles and priorities, 1942-2003 / David Austin -- App. 2. Justice and solidarity with the old - two complementary moral concerns in healthcare / Mats Hansson -- App. 3. Justice and the Nordic healthcare systems / Vilhjalmur Arnason. |
| Responsibility: | Eric Matthews and Elizabeth Russell ; foreword by Kenneth Boyd. |
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