Concerning the provision and obligations of health care : an honors thesis [(HONRS 499)]

This paper is an examination of the obligations of government and society in providing health care to its citizenry. It studies the nature of basic rights as defined and explained by Henry Shue, and health care's place within those basic rights. Two of the major theories of justice are critically examined to try and determine what place health care has within the just society. The third and final part of the thesis examines several of the empirical claims about the American health care system and what should be done to incorporate a public health ethic into the health care system.Honors CollegeThesis (B.?.