Volume One discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn.

Book Reviews

• Territorial Politics and Health Policy: UK Health Policy in Comparative Perspective (The Devolution Series)
• The Social Significance of Health Promotion
• Disentitlement?: The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response (Medicine)
• Who Should We Treat?: Law, Patients and Resources in the NHS
• Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland
• Health and Illness (Short Introductions)
• Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
• Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal (Studies in Law and Economics)
• Why I Burned My Book (American Subjects)
• Pregnancy and Parenting after Thirty-Five: Mid Life, New Life (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)