Setting Limits Fairly: Learning to Share Resources for Health

by Norman Daniels

Book Overview

The central idea behind this book is that we lack consensus on principles for allocating medical resources -- and in the absence of such a consensus we must develop and rely on a fair decision-making process for setting limits on health care. Daniels and Sabin provide a cogent analysis of the current situation, lucidly review the usual candidate solutions, and describe their own approach. The audience for the book is global since the problem of limited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195325958
• ISBN13: 9780195325959
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"