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Health Care as a Community Good: Many Dimensions, Many Communities, Many Views of Justice
Author(s) -
GALARNEAU CHARLENE A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528711
Subject(s) - economic justice , value (mathematics) , health care , sociology , social justice , public relations , environmental ethics , political science , criminology , law , philosophy , machine learning , computer science
We often speak of health care as a social good. What kind of good it is—and what justice requires of us in making it available to the members of society—depends on how society understands it. And this is where it gets complicated.