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Edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, and Anita Silvers. 469 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-514354-X.

Is health care a right? If so, what duties does this right confer on health care systems and on societies? Since an unlimited right to all services is unaffordable, even in the United States (where spending on health care in 2001 exceeded 14 percent of the gross domestic product), where, and by whom and what means, should the line be drawn? With more than 40 million U.S. citizens without health insurance, is the health care system in this country fundamentally immoral? When the medical director of a health maintenance organization or the chief executive officer of a hospital makes decisions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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