The ethics of end-of-life care for prison inmates
| Autor: | Felicia G. Cohn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Value (ethics)
Moral Obligations Social contract media_common.quotation_subject Prison Criminology 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Economic Justice Resource Allocation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Social Justice Terminal care Medicine Humans Ethics Medical 030212 general & internal medicine Health policy media_common Terminal Care business.industry Health Policy 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Social justice Issues ethics and legal aspects Prisons 060301 applied ethics business End-of-life care |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of law, medicineethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, MedicineEthics. 27(3) |
| ISSN: | 1073-1105 |
| Popis: | Terminally ill elderly and long-term disabled persons under our system of health care are eligible for Medicare and may qualify for the hospice care benefit. Despite such provisions, research shows that individuals still frequently do not receive the health care they need. But, as inadequate as end-of-life care can be for the general population, these inadequacies are exacerbated for individuals incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails. Although inmates are guaranteed a basic level of health care under the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause, they lack the mobility or freedom to choose their health care coverage, and they are dependent on an institutional system for such care. Inside prison, security and access issues affect the care inmates receive. Further, the availability of adequate clinical resources, especially for high-cost procedures, may be problematic in some jurisdictions.In addition to the practical, institutional, and legal barriers to providing and improving general end-of-life care, efforts to improve end-of-life care for prisoners may also encounter a lack of public sympathy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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