Health Care Reform: A Human Rights Approach.

Chapman, Audrey R., ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1994.

Arguing that health care should be a human right rather than a commodity, the contributors to this volume call for a new social covenant establishing a right to a standard of health care consistent with society's level of resources. By linking rights with limits, they otter a framework for seeking national consensus on a cost-conscious standard of universal medical care. The authors identify the policy implications of recognizing and...