The Republic of Health: Ethics and Politics in 21st Century Health Care

Richard Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London)

Just to recap on that discussion (although of course Richard may take the debate further or to a different point), he discussed issues such as:

• Health care ethics; to get to ideals as close as possible paradigm - to a patient choice model
• Different perspective: State involvement in medical care. Market place
• Rational agent and the behavioural sciences : What would a rational decision look like. Consent: law not concerned about good choice or rational decision or formal consistency. - behavioural sciences challenge normative account of decision making.
• Freedom and Public Health
• Human Rights and Public Health

Contact: Dr Barbara Underwood, chair of the Barnes Philosophy Club ([email protected])