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This title was first published in 2003. The fulfilment of health care rights in a world where resources are scarce is a prominent issue. In this volume, Frances H. Miller introduces studies on a wide variety of aspects of this important yet complex process.

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'Frances Miller has edited a fascinating set of essays on a very wide range of medical controversies... the essays are first-rate, both articulate in advocacy and respectful of understandable differences of philosophical conviction. This book is ideal for sketching the range of disputes in medical care's ethical universe.' Theodore R. Marmor, Professor of Public Policy & Management, Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA 'Rights talk is all too often muddled talk. This collection of papers examining various aspects of rights - to information, to resources and so on - provides a welcome example of how analytic rigour can dispel verbal fog. It is all the more welcome because although written by lawyers it is not written just for lawyers. The editors have produced a text which is accessible and enlightening for all those who take a general interest in health policy.' Rudolf Klein, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath, Visiting Professor at LSE and London School of Hygiene, UK 'This book brings together some of the most provocative and interesting writing of the past decade on the subject of health care resources and the important issues of who should be able to claim rights related to those resources (and who should not), and why. Taken together, the collection illuminates how medical ethics and the law are addressing the important dilemmas and challenges facing health care in the 21st century.' Eleanor D. Kinney, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Health, Indiana University, USA

'Frances Miller has edited a fascinating set of essays on a very wide range of medical controversies... the essays are first-rate, both articulate in advocacy and respectful of understandable differences of philosophical conviction. This book is ideal for sketching the range of disputes in medical care's ethical universe.' Theodore R. Marmor, Professor of Public Policy & Management, Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA 'Rights talk is all too often muddled talk. This collection of papers examining various aspects of rights - to information, to resources and so on - provides a welcome example of how analytic rigour can dispel verbal fog. It is all the more welcome because although written by lawyers it is not written just for lawyers. The editors have produced a text which is accessible and enlightening for all those who take a general interest in health policy.' Rudolf Klein, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath, Visiting Professor at LSE and London School of Hygiene, UK 'This book brings together some of the most provocative and interesting writing of the past decade on the subject of health care resources and the important issues of who should be able to claim rights related to those resources (and who should not), and why. Taken together, the collection illuminates how medical ethics and the law are addressing the important dilemmas and challenges facing health care in the 21st century.' Eleanor D. Kinney, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Health, Indiana University, USA

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