Mary Dombeck and Tobie Hittle Olsan
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347558
- eISBN:
- 9781447302216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347558.003.0012
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter discusses institutional responsibility regarding resource allocation. It examines the complexities of the US health care system by describing four contexts of health care delivery, their ...
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This chapter discusses institutional responsibility regarding resource allocation. It examines the complexities of the US health care system by describing four contexts of health care delivery, their historical background, and the ethical implications of justice. Second, the chapter presents evidence for and examples of disparate health care in different populations. Third, it describes the depersonalising effect of institutions on recipients and providers. Finally, recommendations are made for moral institutional responses to these challenges.Less
This chapter discusses institutional responsibility regarding resource allocation. It examines the complexities of the US health care system by describing four contexts of health care delivery, their historical background, and the ethical implications of justice. Second, the chapter presents evidence for and examples of disparate health care in different populations. Third, it describes the depersonalising effect of institutions on recipients and providers. Finally, recommendations are made for moral institutional responses to these challenges.
Madison Powers
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190053987
- eISBN:
- 9780190054014
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190053987.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter demonstrates how the conception of well-being developed in this book is a crucial part of the rationale for human rights. A variant of interest-based theories of human rights is defended ...
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This chapter demonstrates how the conception of well-being developed in this book is a crucial part of the rationale for human rights. A variant of interest-based theories of human rights is defended against a number of objections. These objections include criticisms raised by proponents of control theories, dignity-based theories, and critics who maintain that the function of human rights is not limited to considerations of how human rights matter to the right-holder. The argument builds on an account of the contingent, but widespread linkage between structural unfairness and human rights violations to defend a pragmatic approach to problems of assigning responsibility for human rights. It addresses the specification of counterpart duties that correlate with human rights claims, and it offers guidance on questions pertaining to the more general responsibilities of institutional agents, paradigmatically nation-states, for maintaining background conditions of structural fairness.Less
This chapter demonstrates how the conception of well-being developed in this book is a crucial part of the rationale for human rights. A variant of interest-based theories of human rights is defended against a number of objections. These objections include criticisms raised by proponents of control theories, dignity-based theories, and critics who maintain that the function of human rights is not limited to considerations of how human rights matter to the right-holder. The argument builds on an account of the contingent, but widespread linkage between structural unfairness and human rights violations to defend a pragmatic approach to problems of assigning responsibility for human rights. It addresses the specification of counterpart duties that correlate with human rights claims, and it offers guidance on questions pertaining to the more general responsibilities of institutional agents, paradigmatically nation-states, for maintaining background conditions of structural fairness.
Catharine A. MacKinnon and Reva B. Siegel (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098006
- eISBN:
- 9780300135305
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098006.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon's pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. ...
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When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon's pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. Here MacKinnon collaborates with eminent authorities to appraise what has been accomplished in the field and what still needs to be done. An introductory essay by Reva Siegel considers how sexual harassment came to be regulated as sex discrimination. Contributors discuss how law can best address sexual harassment, the importance and definition of consent and unwelcomeness, issues of same-sex harassment, questions of institutional responsibility for sexual harassment in both employment and education settings, considerations of freedom of speech, effects of sexual harassment doctrine on gender and racial justice, and transnational approaches to the problem. An afterword by MacKinnon assesses the changes wrought by sexual harassment law in the past quarter-century.Less
When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon's pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted her theory of sexual harassment in 1986. Here MacKinnon collaborates with eminent authorities to appraise what has been accomplished in the field and what still needs to be done. An introductory essay by Reva Siegel considers how sexual harassment came to be regulated as sex discrimination. Contributors discuss how law can best address sexual harassment, the importance and definition of consent and unwelcomeness, issues of same-sex harassment, questions of institutional responsibility for sexual harassment in both employment and education settings, considerations of freedom of speech, effects of sexual harassment doctrine on gender and racial justice, and transnational approaches to the problem. An afterword by MacKinnon assesses the changes wrought by sexual harassment law in the past quarter-century.
