Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care

by Anita Silvers and Margaret Battin

Book Overview

Because medicine can preserve and restore health and function, it has been widely acknowledged as a basic good that a just society should provide its members. Yet there is wide disagreement over the scope of what is to be provided, to whom, how, when and why. In this uniquely comprehensive book some of the best-known philosophers, doctors, lawyers, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss the concerns and deepen our understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514354X
• ISBN13: 9780195143546
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.0" x 7.2"