'Moral clarity' espoused in debate over health-care reform
17th Nov 2006, 00:44 GMT
A new collection of essays, Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics (University of Rochester Press), questions the ethics of having so many citizens without basic health care and proposes ways of moving beyond the standard ideological roadblocks.Editors Timothy Engström and Wade Robison, professors of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, call for a renewed national dialogue committed to revamping the US health care model guided by moral principles in balance with political and economical realities.
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