...Brain drain of health practioners is a serious concern since outmigration of doctors and nurses may make a health care provision poor country into a health care provision deprived country. In response, some philosophers have argued for exit restrictions on health care workers, that may take...

...This chapter explains how mediation works in a health care setting in Scotland by focusing on the National Health Service (NHS), the country's largest employer with almost 158,000 staff. Health services are delivered through fourteen regional NHS Boards, each of which runs the entire local NHS...

... West Port Wedderburn family general Dundee Scotland medical care medical services early modern period public health midwives health care What seemed to be emerging in medicine and in society in general was a series of concentric circles, with the epicentre around Edinburgh. The inner circles...

...This chapter presents three cosmopolitan approaches to global health care justice: Thomas Pogge's negative duties based approach, Gillian Brock's minimal needs view, and Henry Shue's model of basic rights. While these approaches share a common focus on attempting to justify the existence of global...

... training and practice, and in the provision of health care. The key areas of medical reform, the increasing importance of higher surgical training, and developments in surgery form the core of the chapter. Billroth Theodor Charcot Jean Koch Robert Lister Joseph Lord Lister Pasteur Louis Simpson James...

..., the most important education reform in thirty-five years, and the largest expansion of health care and most wide-ranging reorganisation of the federal bureaucracy in a generation. Afghanistan Bush President George W Israel Palestine conflict war “war on terror” financial crash 2008 Iran Clinton...

... and economic difficulties that compromise Scotland’s status as a nation. Three key areas in which Scottish and UK interests differ and where immigration is presented as a benefit to Scottish interests are population growth, economic growth, and support for social services, like health care, housing...

...Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? The eight chapters within this book assess fields including humanitarian and development aid, the slave trade, health care assistance, reparations for historical injustices, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund...