Social science & medicine (1982)HumansIsraelState MedicineHospitalsPrivate
Worthy of thinness: Moral reasoning and bureaucratic care in a state-funded bariatric surgery committee.
Hilla Nehushtan
Published: 202610.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118922
Abstract
In many countries, bariatric surgery is tightly rationed, yet Israel's publicly funded healthcare system provides comparatively broad access to this surgery. This ethnographic study examines how a bariatric surgery committee evaluates patient deservi…
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