Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195375138)

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 Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and justice.

Author: Madison Powers, Ruth Faden
ISBN-10: 0195375130
ISBN-13: 9780195375138
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2008
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.30w x 0.69d