Austin, who teaches at several institutions in southern California, draws on her background in both medical ethics and political philosophy to test whether there is any leading political philosophy capable of justifying a right to health care in the US. She finds that there are three distribution systems for health care public, employment-based, and private each governed by an underlying distributive principle. She then asks whether these principles are fulfilled in the actual systems, and whether the results are just. She does not provide an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
