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By Norman Daniels. 397 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. $80 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). ISBN 978-0-521-87632-2 (cloth); 978-0-521-69998-3 (paper).

Many important issues of health policy, such as whether government should provide universal health insurance, raise fundamental questions about the proper scope of government and the fair allocation of resources in society. Norman Daniels's new book, Just Health, presents a carefully reasoned approach to answering such questions.

The book is by design a successor to an earlier work, Just Health Care (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), in which, as the title indicates, Daniels focused on equity in the provision of health care. In the more than two decades since the earlier work's publication, extensive research has shown that although . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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