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Subject(s)

• Social medicine [Browse]
• Right to health [Browse]
• Social justice [Browse]
• Medical ethics [Browse]
• Medical economics—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Rhodes, Rosamond [Browse]

Related name

• Battin, M. Pabst [Browse]
• Silvers, Anita [Browse]

Summary note

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 unique and comprehensive volume, 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. Their contributions deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• part I. Theoretical foundations
• part II. Access and rationing
• part III. Populations
• part Ivolume Dilemmas and priorities.

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ISBN

• 0-19-026755-0
• 0-19-993081-3

OCLC

860706036

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