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? In a world filled with inequalities in health and well-being, which inequalities matter most and are the most morally...

Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been described as the field's core value. Our account of justice stresses the fair disbursement of common advantages and sharing of common burdens. It captures the twin moral impulses that animate public health: to advance human...

Physicians are feeling the heat of cost containment. Pressures on doctors to contain costs have mounted - from hospital and Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) administrators, from state and national government, from medical staffs. Medicare payment reforms, corporate and insurer demands, and...

Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year. Around one third of cancers are attributable to a small number of preventable risk factors – including smoking and the harmful consumption of alcohol – for which effective...

Bioethics and public health are largely estranged. Questions of moral and political philosophy are relevant to the means and ends of public health, but often go unasked. Population-level concerns are of mounting importance for bioethics. Greater engagement between bioethics and public health...

The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (I. Glenn Cohen, ed. Oxford University Press 2013) is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its...

This chapter focuses on ethical issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the do-main of health. In particular we discuss specific issues in biomedical research, healthcare provision and public health. We devote particular attention to ethical concerns about safety and evidence...