Mortal peril : our inalienable right to health care? / Richard A. Epstein.
1997
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Title
Mortal peril : our inalienable right to health care? / Richard A. Epstein.
Published
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
RA395.A3 E58 1997
ISBN
0201136473
Description
xvi, 503 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35658013
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-478) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface: Seen But Not Heard
Introduction: Hard Truths and Fresh Starts
1
Pt. 1
Access to Health Care
25
1A Positive Case for Positive Rights
27
2Practical Obstacles to Positive Rights
43
3Demanded Care: An Exercise in Futility
59
4Necessity and Indigent Care: The Right to Say No
81
5Wealth and Disability
107
6Community Rating and Pre-existing Conditions
121
7Medicare: The Third Rail of American Politics
147
8Clintoncare: The Shipwreck
185
Pt. 2
Self-Determination and Choice
217
9Alienability and Its Limitations: Of Surrogacy and Baby-Selling
221
10The Present: Shortages Without Solution
237
11Transplantation: The Supply Side
249
12Organ Transplantation: The Demand Side
263
13Active Euthanasia
283
14Physician-Assisted Suicide
299
15Abuse and Overreaching
313
16Unwelcome Constitutional Complications
329
17Incompetence
345
18History, Doctrine, and Evolution of Liability
359
19The Efficiency of the Liability System
381
20The Reform of the Liability System
395
Postscript
417
Endnotes
435
Table of Cases
479
Index
485