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By Charles J. Dougherty. 179 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-510397-1.

Dougherty's stated goal in this book is to "identify key moral values, display their roots and general structures, and apply them to the health care system." He seeks to critique the vast power of market forces in health care and provide a normative framework for future reform. The seven values he discusses are human dignity, caring, protection of the least well-off, the common good, cost containment, responsibility, and excellence. Dougherty believes that a health care system ordered by these values would be very different from the increasingly market-driven one we now have. It would, for example, guarantee access for all . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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