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The ethics of health barriers to immigration: morality among neighbours.
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PMID:  20049538     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Many countries encourage immigration, yet almost without exception they impose medical conditions on the admissibility of prospective immigrants. This paper examines the ethical defensibility of this practice. It argues that the neighbourhood principle, which states that we owe a greater duty to neighbours than to strangers, when properly understood, extends to all human beings, that economic and safety considerations play only a limited role in ethically underwriting an exclusionary policy, and that medical immigration criteria should be harmonized with treatment eligibility criteria for citizens of the relevant countries themselves.
Authors:
Eike-Henner W Kluge
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy     Volume:  18     ISSN:  1573-3394     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Care Anal     Publication Date:  2010 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-11-03     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9432537     Medline TA:  Health Care Anal     Country:  Netherlands    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  342-57     Citation Subset:  H    
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. ekluge@uvic.ca
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