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Weird health care for WEIRD societies?

In: Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

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  • Hartmut Kliemt

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Modern Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic, WEIRD, societies have succeeded to separate a private exchange from a public governance sphere. Yet the ascent of medicine together with the widely shared opinion that a legitimate state must guarantee citizens equal protection against (imminent) grave risks for life and limb may threaten the private-public political equilibrium. The institutional evolution of treating ESRD and kidney transplantation is used to illustrate how ‘ethically’ motivated responses to medical progress may induce politics to reduce the private exchange sphere and that this potentially endangers not only basic health but also basic political interests of citizens.

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  • Hartmut Kliemt, 2023. "Weird health care for WEIRD societies?," Chapters, in: Joan Costa-Font & Alberto Batinti & Gilberto Turati (ed.), Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, chapter 9, pages 130-145, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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