Bücher der Reihe Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy

Norman Daniels examines some of the dilemmas thrown up by conflicting demands for medical attention and advances a theory of justice in the distribution of health care and policies. Access to care, preventive measures, treatment of the elderly, and the obligations of doctors and medical administrations are fully discussed.

In this important study, Thomas Halper examines the policies and practices of the British National Health Services in treating kidney disease. The book draws on numerous personal accounts, often moving or unintentionally revealing, and should prove interesting to professionals and students with an interest in philosophy, health care, public health, public policy and British politics.

This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent - and yet in some respects most neglected - problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents. The authors' approach combines a probing analysis of fundamental issues in ethical theory with a sensitive awareness of the concrete realities of health care institutions.