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Other authors / contributors: | Faden, Ruth R.
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ISBN: | 9780199705191 0199705194 1281529427 9781281529428 9780195189261 0195189264 0195375130 9780195375138
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Powers, Madison. Social justice. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 9780195375138
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