Precision Medicine and Distributive Justice
Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation
$320.99
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2022
Summary
Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only very marginal gains in life expectancy for most patients at very great cost, thereby threatening the just allocation of limited health care resources. Philosophers have high hopes for the utility of their theories of justice in addressing the challenges of resource allocation; however, none of these theories can address adequately the “wicked” ethic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197647721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197647723 |
| Author: | Leonard M. Fleck |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 785g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 164mm x 243mm |
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Leonard M. Fleck
Leonard M. Fleck has been Professor of Philosophy in the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University since 1985. He is the author of Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation and over 160 journal articles and book chapters addressing a broad range of issues in bioethics and health care policy, especially in relation to genetics, health care rationing, health carejustice, and the role of democratic deliberation in addressing those issues.
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