The Ethics of Health Care Rationing

Revised and updated throughout, this 2e includes new chapters on disability and age discrimination, and the price of theraputic drugs. An ideal starting point for students new to the subject, in philosophy and related fields such as politics, health economics, public health, medicine, nursing and social work.

Greg Bognar is Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE), Sweden. He is currently working on an edited volume with Axel Gosseries on the ethics of age limits and age discrimination. Iwao Hirose is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of Egalitarianism (Routledge, 2015) and Moral Aggregation (2015), and a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (2015) and Weighing and Reasoning (2015).

Preface to the second edition Introduction 1. Ethics and health care 2. The value of health 3. Ethics and cost-effectiveness 4. Disability discrimination 5. The question of age 6. The aggregation of health benefits 7. Responsibility for health 8. The price of drugs Conclusion. Glossary Bibliography Index