Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age: The Moral Dimensions

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUFFIELD TRUST Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics philosophy economics and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful as will public health specialists health economists and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine.