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Ten influential essays on justice and healthcare offer a systematic and unified approach that challenges widely held dogmas and unsettles the framing assumptions of a number of prominent debates. This book explores the relationship between institutions, incentives, and moral commitments.

Medical care --- Right to health --- Law and legislation --- Right to health care

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Medical economics --- Right to health care. --- Right to health. --- Social medicine. --- Health Care Rationing. --- Bioethical Issues. --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Health Services Accessibility --- Health. --- Human Rights --- Human rights --- Public Health --- Right to health care. --- Right to health. --- Social medicine. --- World Health --- Health aspects.

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Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.

Beneficence --- Patient Advocacy --- Policy Making --- Reference Standards --- Weights and Measures --- Philosophy. --- Medicine --- Medical ethics. --- Economics. --- Management science. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Economics, general. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Medical policy --- Right to health --- Right to health care --- Congresses --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Medicine—Philosophy.

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"Health rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not easily fit the traditional 'claim right' model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. This book addresses this break between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, this book provides insights into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond"--

Right to health --- Canada. --- Canada --- bioethics. --- health and human rights. --- health justice. --- health law. --- human rights. --- positive rights. --- right to health care. --- right to health. --- rights theory. --- social rights. --- Medical care --- Law and legislation