caa a22 4500 477078923 CHVBK 20180405111445.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02252880 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02252880 Heubel Friedrich Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Klinikum Der Philipps-University, Karl von Frisch Strasse, D35033, Marburg, Germany aut Moral strangers and the health care market [Elektronische Daten] [Friedrich Heubel] In order to reflect on the morality of the health care market this paper critiques some of H. T. Engelhardt's presuppositions. Engelhardt has created the vivid term ‘moral stranger' and suggested that there can be a ‘morality of moral strangers'. However his position relies either on certain necessary presuppositions which he leaves unmentioned or on presuppositions that are—in a strict sense—not moral ones. Engelhardt advocates the market economy as the guiding principle of health care, and claims that the market needs no moral presuppositions. But when the preconditions of a functioning market are examined it turns out that a functioning market requires property and ownership, and that property and ownership are moral institutions. Therefore the application of the idea of the market to health care undoubtedly has morally serious consequences: most important, the difference between commodities and human beings is obscured. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1996 Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/3(1996-09-01), 197-205 1065-3058 4:3<197 1996 4 10728 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02252880 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02252880 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Heubel Friedrich Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Klinikum Der Philipps-University, Karl von Frisch Strasse, D35033, Marburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/3(1996-09-01), 197-205 1065-3058 4:3<197 1996 4 10728 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer