Health Care Policy is not the usual compilation of well-worn items, but a truly effective gathering of exceptionally evocative recent articles about essential issues too often neglected. Shannon has interwoven issues that affect the individual ('I might be bio-terrorized;' 'I need better health insurance') with issues that affect others (HIV/AIDS in Asia and Africa; selling kidneys in India). This collection evokes a sense of solidarity in an unusually effective way, demonstrates our global interdependence, and underlines the critical importance of developing ethically adequate national and international health care policy...

David F. Kelly, Ph.D., founding director, Duquesne University Health Care Ethics Center and professor of theology, Duquesne University

As the literature on bioethics expands there is great need for textbooks providing first-rate essays that are helpful to students. Relying upon his vast knowledge of the field, the selections chosen by Tom Shannon constitute an excellent anthology for understanding the social policy issues of bioethics. It is a book that should appear on many future course syllabi.

Kenneth R. Himes, OFM, Boston College

Anyone who works or teaches in the field of bioethics is familiar with Professor Shannon's anthologies. With this volume, he now brings his skill to the ethical issues involved in health care policy. These essays not only show the breadth of development in this area in the past few years. They also offer the reader an insight into the diversity of methods needed for critical ethical reasoning itself.

Thomas Nairn, O.F.M., Erica and Harry John Family Professor of Catholic Ethics and director of the Healthcare Mission Leadership Program at Catholic T

There has been a flood of literature on health policy in the past decade. This collection is like a lifeline to those trying to tread these waters or daring to step into them for the first time. Tom Shannon has skillfully selected essays that represent the scope and complexity of a very turbulent field in bioethics.

Richard M. Gula, S.S., professor of moral theology at Francsican School of Theology, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California

Health Care Policy is not the usual compilation of well-worn items, but a truly effective gathering of exceptionally evocative recent articles about essential issues too often neglected. Shannon has interwoven issues that affect the individual ('I might be bio-terrorized;' 'I need better health insurance') with issues that affect others (HIV/AIDS in Asia and Africa; selling kidneys in India). This collection evokes a sense of solidarity in an unusually effective way, demonstrates our global interdependence, and underlines the critical importance of developing ethically adequate national and international health care policy.

David F. Kelly, Ph.D., founding director, Duquesne University Health Care Ethics Center and professor of theology, Duquesne University