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 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.Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy is written by Madison Powers; Ruth Faden and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for Social Justice are 9780199888443, 0199888442 and the print ISBNs are 9780199705191, 0199705194. Additional ISBNs include 9780195375138, 9780195189261.