Contents -- Contributors -- I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Justice, Health, and Health Care -- 2. Justice and the Basic Structure of Health-Care Systems -- 3. Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism Seriously -- 4. Utilitarian Approaches to Justice in Health Care -- 5. Aggregation and the Moral Relevance of Context in Health-Care Decision Making -- 6. Why There Is No Right to Health Care -- 7. Specifying the Content of the Human Right to Health Care -- II: RATIONING AND ACCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD -- 8. Unequal by Design: Health Care, Distributive Justice, and the American Political Process -- 9. Health-Care Justice and Agency -- 10. Treatment According to Need: Justice and the British National Health Service -- 11. Rationing Decisions: Integrating Cost-Effectiveness with Other Values -- 12. Resources and Rights: Court Decisions in the United Kingdom -- 13. Justice and the Social Reality of Health: The Case of Australia -- 14. Justice for All? The Scandinavian Approach -- 15. Ethics, Politics, and Priorities in the Italian Health-Care System -- 16. Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Trials in Developing Countries -- III: SPECIAL NEEDS OF SOCIAL GROUPS -- 17. Racial Groups, Distrust, and the Distribution of Health Care -- 18. Gender Justice in the Health-Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes -- 19. Bedside Justice and Disability: Personalizing Judgment, Preserving Impartiality -- 20. The Medical, the Mental, and the Dental: Vicissitudes of Stigma and Compassion -- 21. Children's Right to Health Care: A Modest Proposal -- 22. Age Rationing Under Conditions of Injustice -- 23. Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care -- 24. Caring for the Vulnerable by Caring for the Caregiver: The Case of Mental Retardation.

25. Justice, Health, and the Price of Poverty -- IV: DILEMMAS FOR MEDICINE AND HEALTH-CARE SYSTEMS: ASSESSMENT AND PRIORITIES -- 26. Alternative Health Care: Limits of Science and Boundaries of Access -- 27. Justice in Transplant Organ Allocation -- 28. Priority to the Worse Off in Health-Care Resource Prioritization -- 29. Whether to Discontinue Nowfutile Use of a Scarce Resource -- 30. Disability, Justice, and Health-Systems Performance Assessment -- 31. Responsibility for Health Status -- 32. Does Distributive Justice Require Universal Access to Assisted Reproduction? -- 33. Premature and Compromised Neonates -- 34. Just Caring: Do Future Possible Children Have a Just Claim to a Sufficiently Healthy Genome? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.