Medicine and Social Justice

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Edition: 2
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199744203
Category: Medical

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

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. Download Medicine and Social Justice medical books for free.
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 discuss what social justice in medicine should be. Their contributions deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run through the contemporary debate. The forty-two chapters in this reorganized second edition of Medicine and Social Justice update and expand upon the Get Medicine and Social Justice our bestseller medical books.

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