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

ISBN-13: 9780195375138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str.

Powers

Opis

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.

Recenzje

In this excellent book, Madison Powers and Ruth Faden set out to define the essential dimensions of well-being that should guide a theory of justice, and then to show how such a theory can be applied to important issues in public health and health policy.

O autorze

Madison Powers is Director and Science Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University. Ruth Faden is Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics, and Director, Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University.