Medicine and social justice: essays on the distribution of health care

Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In th...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press c2012
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Zusammenfassung:Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this book, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss what social justice in medicine should be. The forty-two chapters in this second edition update and expand upon the thirty-four chapters of the first edition
Beschreibung:xvi, 560 p.
ISBN:9780190267551
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744206.001.0001

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