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

by Anita Silvers and Margaret Battin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199744203
• ISBN13: 9780199744206
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"