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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Koch
ISBN: 0275974332 9780275974336 0275974324 9780275974329
OCLC Number: 47716348
Description: xvii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 Lifeboat Ethics and the Case of the William Brown -- Health Care -- The William Brown -- The Gulf Stream -- A Constructed Tale -- The Trial -- Lifeboat Ethics Redux -- The Titantic --2 The Scales of Justice: Principles and Practice -- Distributive Justice -- Scarcity -- Justice Rationales -- Critiques -- Transplantation -- A Geographical Approach -- 3 Scarce Goods: The Contexts of Solid Organ Transplantation -- Transplantation: The Early Years -- Cyclosporine: Transforming Scarcity -- A National System -- National Organ Transplant Act -- Regionalization -- An Example -- Discussion --4 The Scale of Justice: Theories and Realities -- Perspective and Scale -- Global/Interational Scales -- Hemispheric Perspective -- Justice and Scale --5 Disappearing States: The Scale of the Nation -- Regional Inequalities -- Centers of Excellence -- Distant Cities -- Redistricting -- Travel Time (Distance) -- Discussion --6 The Scale of the City: Distant Communities and the -- Problem of Supply -- Rural versus Urban Care -- OPO Performance -- Demographics and Membership -- Poverty and Race -- A Sense of the Game -- Application: Southern California -- Discussion --7 The Lifeboat's Choice -- Lifeboat Seats -- Results -- Q-Analysis -- Discussion --8 Justice in Ethic's Lifeboat -- Dimensionality -- Participation -- Philosophical Concerns -- Reasons and Persons -- The Scarcities We Create --Afterword -- Holmes' Legacy -- Abundance and Scarcity.
Responsibility: Tom Koch.
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