This book brings together ten influential essays on justice and healthcare, written by a major figure in bioethics and political philosophy. What emerges is a systematic and unified approach to the issues that challenges widely-held dogmas and unsettles the framing assumptions of a number of prominent debates. Unlike most work in bioethics, this book takes the problem of implementing justice seriously, exploring the relationship between institutions, incentives, and moral commitments.

Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.

• Introduction


• I: The Right to a 'Decent Minimum' of Health Care


• II: Health Care Delivery and Resource Allocation


• III: Private and Public Responsibilities in the U.S. Health Care System


• IV: Ethical Issues in For-Profit Health Care (with Dan W. Brock)


• V: Privatization and Just Health Care


• VI: Managed Care: Rationing Without Justice But Not Unjustly


• VII: Trust in Managed Care Organizations


• VIII: Is There a Medical Profession in the House?


• IX: Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care (with Kristen Hessler)


• X: Responsibility for Global Health (with Matthew Decamp)