Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

by Ruth R. Faden and Madison Powers

Book Overview

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195375130
• ISBN13: 9780195375138
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"