Achieving Justice in the U.S. Healthcare System

Arthur J. Dyck is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of Population Ethics in the School of Public Health, and a member of the Faculty of Divinity at Harvard University.  He has written extensively on bioethics and the fundamental value of the availability of health care for all people.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1.  What Justice Demands.- Chapter 2.  The Cognitive Bases for Deciding When Policies Are Just.- Chapter 3. Advocating Basic Minimum Medical Care: A Case of Justice Denied.- Chapter 4. Overdiagnosing, Overtesting, and Overmedicalizing Physical Conditions.- Chapter 5.  Overdiagnosing, Overtesting, and Overmedicalizing Behavior and Feelings.- Chapter 6. Practices and Policies in the U.S. Health Care System That Are Scientifically and Ethically Unjustifiable: They Should Not and Cannot Persist.- Chapter 7. Suggesting Policies and Practices for Increasing Justice and Assuring the Sustainability of the U.S. Health Care System.