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The Corporate Practice Of Medicine: Competition And Innovation In Health Care (Book Review), Linda Treiber
The Corporate Practice Of Medicine: Competition And Innovation In Health Care (Book Review), Linda Treiber
Linda A. Treiber
Review of the book "The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care," by James C. Robinson
Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz
Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …