Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter

“These interactions are also the topic of Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter, in which Zoloth, here as sole author, suggests a Jewish model for dealing with the increasingly urgent and tangled problem of distributing health care efficiently and justly.” — Hastings Center Report

“[Zoloth offers] a strongly knitted framework, calling upon a rich Jewish tradition, from which prominent policy-makers can benefit.” — Forward

“Laurie Zoloth is as talented as they come. . . . Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter [is] a beautifully poetic book . . . [and] a project with the ambitious aim of developing an alternative vocabulary with which to discuss justice in U.S. health care. It will surprise no one who is familiar with Zoloth’s work to hear that she succeeds brilliantly. . . . Zoloth has written a book that is clinically astute, politically relevant, and abundant in wisdom and grace.” — Carl Elliott, Journal of the American Medical Association

“The significance of Zoloth’s book cannot be overestimated. At once theoretically important and practically wise, it gives us the Jewish intervention we have so desperately needed for the challenging questions presented by distribution of medical care. . . . More importantly, Zoloth helps us see why no philosopher or theologian should pretend to think about ethics without reflecting on the richness of Jewish thought. I can only hope this book will be widely read and used in any course that pretends to teach students about the ethics of medicine.” — Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University