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Introduction: Why Ethics of Pandemics? -- The General Principle of Pandemic Response -- Rationing of Scarce Health Care Resources -- Pandemics in an Unequal World -- Restricting Freedom -- Inducing Voluntary Behavioral Change -- Moral Mathematics under Uncertainty.

"Should organ transplants be given to patients who have waited the longest, or need it most urgently, or those whose survival prospects are the best? The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health care systems. Someone must budget for as well as dispense health care whilst aging populations severely stretch the availability of resources. The Ethics of Health Care Rationing is a clear and much-needed introduction to this increasingly important topic. Substantially revised and updated, this second edition includes new chapters on disability discrimination and age discrimination respectively, and a new chapter the price of drugs and medical therapies

Fifteen original essays by leading philosophers offer a comprehensive evaluation of John Broome's major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy, over the past thirty years. They focus in particular on the theory of value, and on practical and theoretical reasoning.

"Equality and Political Philosophy" published on by Oxford University Press.