Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy(Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics

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 pol