Norman Daniels's new book, Just Health, brings together his decades of work on the problem of justice and health. It improves on earlier writings by discussing how we can meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all and by attending to the implications of the socioeconomic determinants of health. In this article I return to the core idea around which the entire theory is built: that th...

At a time when historians seem all too often to have lost confidence in their craft and turned to other branches of knowledge for inspiration, Erik Midelfort has written a very historical book. A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany brilliantly demonstrates how much an accomplished historian can achieve. While Midelfort is by no means oblivious to the insights other disciplines offer...