In search of equity : [electronic resource] health needs and the health care system / edited by Ronald Bayer and Arthur L. Caplan and Norman Daniels.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ronald Bayer -- Health care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels-- For and against equal access to health care / Amy Gutmann -- Jail and prison health care standards : a determination of need without reference to want or desire / Nancy Neveloff Dubler -- How should values count in the allocation of new technologies in health care? / Arthur L. Caplan -- The neoconservative health strategy : vouchers and the rhetoric of equity / John Arras -- Operationalizing respect for persons : a qualitative aspect of the right to health care / Robert L. Dickman -- Needs, wants, demands, and interests : their interaction in medical practice and health policy / Jerry Avorn -- Physicians' refusals to patient demands : an application of medical discernment / Mark Siegler.