Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice

by Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman and Laurie Zoloth

Book Overview

The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784828X
• ISBN13: 9780807848289
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"