Gifts , exchanges and the political economy of health care
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Should blood be bought and sold is in crude terms the question ashed and answered by Richard Titmuss in his recent book The Gift Relationship. Dr Raymond Plant, a lecturer in philosophy at Manchester University, analyses Titmuss' argunents in a paper which we are printing in two parts. Titmuss has taken the provision of blood as his example of the gift relationship and by extension that of health care generally. Dr Plant considers in turn each of Titmuss' argunents that blood should not be a marketable cormnodity, the moral objections to which seem to be the erosion offreedom and of truth telling, the separation of society through the cash nexus, and its converse that the provision of health care is a means for the integration of society. Dr Plant also examines the views of other conmentators on the Titmuss' theory of the value of
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Gifts, exchanges and the political economy of health care. Part II: how should health care be distributed?
Should blood be bought and sold is in crude terms the question asked and answered by Richard Titmuss in his recent book The Gift Relationship. Dr Raymond Plant, a lecturer in philosophy at Manchester University, analyses Titmuss' arguments in a paper which we are printing in two parts. Titmuss has taken the provision of blood as his example of the gift relationship--and by extension that of hea...
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