Precision Medicine and Distributive Justice: Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation

Author:   Leonard M. Fleck (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197647721


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   18 November 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only very marginal gains in life expectancy for most patients at very great cost, thereby threatening the just allocation of limited health care resources. Philosophers have high hopes for the utility of their theories of justice in addressing the challenges of resource allocation; however, none of these theories can address adequately the

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Author:   Leonard M. Fleck (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.30cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.40cm
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9780197647721


ISBN 10:   0197647723
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   18 November 2022
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Leonard M. Fleck has been Professor of Philosophy in the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University since 1985. He is the author of Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation and over 160 journal articles and book chapters addressing a broad range of issues in bioethics and health care policy, especially in relation to genetics, health care rationing, health care justice, and the role of democratic deliberation in addressing those issues.

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