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Social justice : the moral foundations of public health and health policy /
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 peopl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Issues in biomedical ethics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. How much inequality in health can a just society tolerate. The audie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199705191 0199705194 1281529427 9781281529428 0199888442 9780199888443 |