The Social Justice Syllabus Project

Health Care

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1.      “Rights to Health Care: A Critical Appraisal” (1979) by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1979, vol. 4, no. 2.

 

2.      “Is There a Right to Health Care” (1994) by David Kelley

 The Atlas Society, available at http://www.atlassociety.org/is_health_care_a_right_obamacare.

 

3.       “Is There is a ‘Right’ to Health Care?” (July 28, 2009) by Theodore Dalrymple, M.D. from The Wall Street Journal, available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306170677645070.html.

 

4.      “Health Care is Not a Right” (1993) by Leonard Piekoff (1993) available at http://www.peikoff.com/essays_and_articles/.

 

5.      “Social Justice and Medical Ethics” by Beth Haynes, M.D.:  The Black Ribbon Project (Aug. 10, 2010), available at http://blackribbonproject.blogspot.com/2010/08/social-justice-and-medical-ethics.html.

 

6.       “Moral Health Care vs. ‘Universal Health Care’” (Winter 2007-2008) Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh M.D, The Objective Standard available at http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/moral-vs-universal-health-care.asp

 

7.      In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care (2012) by Scott Atlas M.D.

 

8.      P.C., M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine (2000) by Sally Satel.

 

9.      "Public Health Quackery" in The Burden of Bad Ideas (2000)  by Heather MacDonald.

 

10.   “Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why?” by Linda Gottfredson and Ian Deary in Current Directions in Psychological Science (2004) 13(1), 1-4.

 

11.   “Intelligence: Is it the epidemiologists' elusive ‘fundamental cause’ of social class inequalities in health?” by Linda Gottfredson in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2004) 86(1), 174-199.

 

12.   The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (2006) Jonathan Klick and Sally Satel, M.D.

 

13.   Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care (1994) by Jane Orient, M.D.

 

14.   “Government-Run Health Care vs. the Hippocratic Oath” by Paul Hsieh, M.D. The Objective Standard (Spring 2010) available at  http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2010-spring/hippocratic-oath.asp

 

15.   “Medicine: The Death of a Profession (1985) by Leonard Peikoff  available at http://www.peikoff.com/essays_and_articles/.

 

16. "How Government Killed the Medical Profession" (2013) by Jeffry Singer available at http://reason.com/archives/2013/04/22/how-government-killed-the-medical-profes


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