Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social JusticeThe last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a grow |
Contents
LANGUAGE NARRATIVE AND DESIRE What We Yearn For | 3 |
OREGON A Conversation Once Entered | 17 |
THE EMBODIED DISCOURSE OF HEALTH CARE Oregon Reconsidered | 48 |
NAMING THE TERRAIN The Language of Liberal Justice and Its Claims | 73 |
THE MORAL LOCATION OF THE SELF The Languages of the Alternative Discourse | 94 |
THE DISCOURSE ITSELF Method Text and Covenant | 119 |
LIMITS LANGUAGE AND TRADITION Jewish Textual Sources Casuistry and the Details of the Discourse | 160 |
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