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Volume 337:352-353 July 31, 1997 Number 5
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Mortal Peril: Our inalienable right to health care?

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By Richard A. Epstein. 503 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison–Wesley, 1997. $27.50. ISBN 0-201-13647-3.

Richard Epstein has never seen a market he does not like. In Mortal Peril he argues that the market in health care should be expanded, not just for the provision of health care services but also for the sale of organs for transplantation and babies for adoption.

A virtue of this book is its reminder that the chief bioethical issues confronting the United States — what care, if any, should be guaranteed to citizens, who should receive scarce resources, whether euthanasia should be legalized, and other important matters — are embedded in larger moral and political concepts of rights, duties, . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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