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philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care
| Title: | A philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care: implications for responsibility and justice. |
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| Name(s): |
Mantoni, Jennifer Lynn. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Philosophy |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2011 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | vi, 64 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Human beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just must account for individual rights in tandem with attempts to address matters of social justice. In order for this reconciliation to occur, matters of individual responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice must be central to health care reform. | |
| Identifier: | 733051704 (oclc), 3171680 (digitool), FADT3171680 (IID), fau:3645 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Jennifer Lynn Mantoni. Vita. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Health care reform -- United States Health services accessibility -- United States Insurance, Health -- United States -- Government policy Political science -- Philosophy Health care rationing -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States Social justice -- United States Responsibility |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3171680 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
