Ethical choices in long-term care
Subtitle: what does justice require?
Contributors: World Health Organization.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Long-term care of the sick -- Moral and ethical aspects.; People with disabilities -- Long-term care -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Medical policy.; Caregivers.; Long-Term Care -- ethics.; Caregivers -- ethics.; Chronic Disease.; Disabled Persons.; Health Services Needs and Demand -- trends.; Long-Term Care -- trends.
Notes: Also available via the Internet.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Ch. 1. Overview; value: Ch. 2. The societal perspective; value: Ch. 3. The role of the family; value: Ch. 4. Other stakeholders; value: Ch. 5. The caregiving relationship; value: Ch. 6. Long-term care and social justice; value: Ch. 7. The way forward; value: Ch. 8. References; value: App. A. Long-term care and social justice: a challenge to conventional ideas of the social contract; value: App. B. Justice and long-term care: need we abandon social contract theory? A reply to Nussbaum; value: App. C. Can contractualism justify state-supported long-term care politics? Or, I'd rather be some mother's child a reply to Nussbaum and Daniels; value: App. D. The African perspective; value: App. E. List of participants.