Health care, ethics and insurance / edited by Tom Sorell.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

xv, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Pt. I. The ethics of underwriting-- Ch. 1. The freedom to underwrite-- Ch. 2. Freedom within limits: underwriting and ethics-- Ch. 3. Genetics and ethics: the scientific background-- Ch. 4. Genetics and insurance-- Ch. 5. HIV and insurance-- Ch. 6. Disability and insurance-- Pt. II. Public or private provision?-- Ch. 7. Ethical issues in social insurance for health-- Ch. 8. More private health insurance is desirable and inevitable

Ch. 9. Equal access to health care: a problematic ideal-- Ch. 10. Public or private? Insurance and pensions-- Ch. 11. Assurance, pensioning and long-term care

Includes bibliographic references and index