Responsibility and Healthcare
This edited collection brings together world-leading authors writing about a wide range of issues related to responsibility and healthcare, and from a variety of perspectives. Alongside a comprehensive introduction by the editors outlining the scope of the relevant debates, the volume contains 14 chapters, split into four sections. This volume pushes forward a number of important debates on responsibility and its role in contemporary healthcare.
The first and second groups of chapters focus, respectively, on (a) the potential justification and (b) nature of 'responsibility-sensitive' policies in healthcare provision; in other words, policies that would hold some patients responsible for their ill health via differences in treatment. These sections include empirically-informed work on public opinion, chapters linking responsibility in healthcare with ongoing debates around criminal responsibility, and new conceptual and theoretical work on the details of responsibility-sensitive policies.
The third set of chapters turns in a more detailed way to the issues of whether, and how, we can be responsible for our health, presenting novel challenges and questions for those who would advocate responsibility-sensitive policies in healthcare.
Finally, questions of responsibility in medicine do not end with those receiving treatment. The fourth group of chapters broadens the volume's focus to think about responsibility of individuals other than patients, including medical professionals and policymakers, including specific consideration of the role of responsibility during pandemics.
Davies, B., De Marco, G., Levy, N. and Savulescu, J., Eds. (2024), Responsibility and Healthcare. (Oxford University Press) [NBK TO FOLLOW]
Provides entirely new articles from leading experts in the field
Offers cutting-edge research on a range of topics related to responsibility and health
Takes a broader view than solely focusing on the question of patient responsibility and its implications for provision of care, looking also at the responsibilities of healthcare providers and institutions
Features chapters written with non-specialists in mind, so accessible to those new to debates around responsibility and related issues
An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence
Freely available to read/download here https://academic.oup.com/book/56271
