Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care?

Table of contents

• Other Books by Richard A. Epstein ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface - Seen but Not Heard ix
• Introduction - Hard Truths and Fresh Starts 1
• Part One - Access to Health Care 25
• Chapter 1 - A Positive Case for Positive Rights 27
• Chapter 2 - Practical Obstacles to Positive Rights 43
• Chapter 3 - Demanded Care: an Exercise in Futility 59
• Chapter 4 - Necessity and Indigent Care: the Right to Say No 81
• Chapter 5 - Wealth and Disability 107
• Chapter 6 - Community Rating and Pre-Existing Conditions 121
• Chapter 7 - Medicare: the Third Rail of American Politics 147
• Chapter 8 - Clintoncare: The Shipwreck 185
• Conclusion 215
• Part Two - Self-Determination and Choice 217
• Interlude 219
• Chapter 9 - Alienability and Its Limitations: of Surrogacy and Baby-Selling 221
• Chapter 10 - The Present: Shortages without Solution 237
• Chapter 11 - Transplantation: the Supply Side 249
• Chapter 12 - Organ Transplantation: The Demand Side 263
• Conclusion 281
• Chapter 13 - Active Euthanasia 283
• Chapter 14 - Physician-Assisted Suicide 299
• Chapter 15 - Abuse and Overreaching 313
• Chapter 16 - Unwelcome Constitutional Complications 329
• Chapter 17 - Incompetence 345
• Chapter 18 - History, Doctrine, and Evolution of Liability 359
• Chapter 19 - The Efficiency of the Liability System 381
• Chapter 20 - The Reform of the Liability System 395
• Post Script - Weaving Access and Choice Together 417
• Endnotes 435
• Table of Cases 479
• Index 485

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