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C D Bessinger

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The organic dimensions of health policy.

The health care system is a level of the larger social system, within which it must seek and find its equilibrium. This organic concept leads to a more realistic assessment of needs and goals, and can make a significant contribution in helping reshape national health policy. It also suggests a re-examination of a two-tiered approach to health benefits: a universally available level of care deemed essential for meeting social needs, and an optional coverage level directed toward meeting those individual life goals which may exceed social needs.

Delivery of Health Care

Living ethics: homeostasis and ethical principle.

Adopting a life-systems perspective and an ethics based on the Good of systems homeostasis opens up new levels of analysis and argument as we deal with the complex questions facing the medical community today. An ethics based on our science of life systems is satisfactory philosophically in that it corresponds to our understanding of biological "truth" and clinically in that it is understandable and communicable in physiological terms.

Attitude of Health Personnel