3 Terminating Medical Care for Incompetent Patients
42
(55)
The Right to Refuse Medical Care
50
(6)
The Insignificance of Who Decides
56
(4)
The Relativity of Extraordinary Care
60
(4)
The Impossibility of Substituted Judgments
64
(6)
The Indeterminacy of Best Interests
70
(17)
Illiberal Resolutions to the Problem of Terminating Care
87
(3)
The Ill Effects of Irresolution
90
(7)
4 The Just Distribution of Medical Resources
97
(58)
Justice and Health Care Policy
98
(9)
The Inadequacy of the Right to Equal Access
107
(7)
Unjustified Lists of Basic Medical Services
114
(6)
The Weakness of the Liberal Opportunity Criterion
120
(4)
Hypothetical Choice Procedures and Conceptions of the Good Life
124
(21)
The Last Hope: Democratic Political Procedures
145
(7)
The Cost of Not Specifying Basic Medical Services
152
(3)
5 The Liberal Communitarian Vision
155
(23)
Background Tenets for Political Philosophy
155
(1)
The Ideal of Liberal Communitarianism
156
(6)
The Conception of Deliberation
162
(5)
The Conception of a Person
167
(2)
Political Rights and Goods
169
(1)
A Federated System
170
(5)
Liberal and Communitarian Facets
175
(3)
6 A Liberal Communitarian Vision of Health Care
178
(67)
The Basic Structure of Community Health Programs
178
(19)
Justification of CHPs
197
(15)
Philosophical Plausibility of CHPs
212
(10)
Political Practicality of CHPs
222
(11)
Objections Considered
233
(12)
Conclusion: Medical Ethics for the Physician
245
(6)
Notes
251
(48)
Index
299
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