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As medical costs mount & government pays more, explicit forms of medical care rationing are likely to come. Rationing may be imposed through financial barriers for the patient in the form of coinsurance & deductibles or in limitations on the funds, facilities, & services available. Imposing barriers to access on the theory that consumers are in a good position to make necessary differentiations places the burden of rationing on the patient who is least able to make the decision rationally, & places the poor, who have the least medical knowledge, in particular jeopardy. Other alternatives include the introduction of fixed budgets requiring professionals to establish priorities or administrative decisions that prescribe the facilities & services available to various populations. Existing research indicates that the consequences of some rationing approaches are inconsistent with theoretical assumptions. The means developed for rationing must encompass equity, as well as efficiency, & produce care that is dignified. Modified HA.

By now one might hope that the robust body of theoretical work recently published on immigration ethics would have taken general political philosophy a long way from the prevailing Rawlsian-style insularity premise, according to which society is "a closed system isolated from other societies" into which persons "enter only by birth and exit only by death." But there are still a great many political theorists whose focus is unreflectively endogenous and who assume away questions of states' constitutive scope and boundaries. One of the signal merits of David Miller's new book,Strangers in Our Midst, is that it lucidly demonstrates why ignoring state boundary constitution is untenable for political theory. Miller shows that foundational debates in political philosophy are inescapably related, both as premise and entailment, to many normative immigration questions.

Over the past decade, scholars have begun to develop the discipline of global environmental ethics. In doing so, they have encountered two obstacles. First, much environmentalism cloaks itself in the discourse of prudence and security, and thus, ethical concerns are difficult to identify. Second, when scholars do recognize ethical issues, they explain them in terms of how people treat the nonhuman world and advance a biocentric or ecocentric moral sensibility. This is a problem to the degree that it neglects countless instances of environmental injustice that involve the way humans treat each other, using nature as a medium. This article illuminates the nonprudential dimensions of global environmental affairs and explains how a focus on the way humans mistreat each other can serve as a central ethical focus for understanding and addressing environmental injustice. Overall, it aims to provide a vocabulary for advancing an anthropocentric sensibility toward global environmental ethical concern.

White-collar crime, fraud, corruption and the stewardship of private and public sector organisations have, rarely had a higher profile. Fraud, corruption or indeed any dishonest act reflects adversely on the agency and often on the integrity of the corporate or public sector in general. The damage to confidence, reputation and image that fraudulent activity can inflict often far exceeds the significance or value of the act itself and when it is exposed in a public sector organisation, be it government agency or local authority, it is often taken by the media and the public as evidence of general weakness or inefficiency. This is probably even more so with non-profit community organisations.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Culture, Health, and Illness -- Part I, Introduction -- 2. Buddhism, Health, Disease, and Thai Culture -- 3. Concepts of Health and Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- 4. Discourses on Health: A Critical Perspective -- 5. Expanding Notions of Culture for Cross-Cultural Ethics in Health and Medicine -- 6. Health, Health Care, and Culture: Diverse Meanings, Shared Agendas -- Part I, Conclusion -- Part II: Culture and Health Care Ethics -- Part II, Introduction -- 7. Buddhist Health Care Ethics -- 8. Chinese Health Care Ethics -- 9. Secular Health Care Ethics -- Part II, Conclusion -- Part III: Ethical Issues in the Delivery of Health Care Services -- Part III, Introduction -- 10. Pediatric Care: Judgments about Best Interests at the Onset of Life -- 11. Comparing the Participation of Native North American and Euro-North American Patients in Health Care Decisions -- 12. End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Decisions About Dying and Perspectives on Life and Death -- Part III, Conclusion -- Part IV: Health Policy: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue -- Part IV, Introduction -- 13. A Critical View of North American Health Policy -- 14. Threats from the Western Biomedical Paradigm: Implications for Chinese Herbology and Traditional Thai Medicine -- 15. Global Challenges: Ethical Implications of the Greening of Modern Western Medicine -- Part IV, Conclusion -- 16. Conclusion -- About the Authors -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This volume offers a critical edition of the only extant Arabic manuscript of the Nicomachean Ethics. A comprehensive introduction by the late Douglas M. Dunlop describes the influence this major Aristotelian work had on Arabic literature. Dunlop's annotated English translation includes important references to the Greek text of the Ethics. The appendix includes a select Greek-Arabic glossary