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By Erich Loewy. 261 pp. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1993. $17.95. ISBN 0-7914-1513-9.

A series of recent books and journal articles have argued that community must be considered in deciding questions ranging from individual clinical cases of futile treatment to the allocation of resources and health care reform. Freedom and Community contributes to this discussion, but it does not address specific issues in bioethics. Instead, it develops a framework for rethinking a wider range of public-policy and ethical issues.

The thesis of this work is that individual autonomy and freedom are best understood within a naturalistic framework that gives primacy to the nurturing function of community. Ethical obligation originates neither in freedom nor . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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