The Program in Human Rights and Health is devoted to conducting scholarly investigations, practical projects and educational programs that bear on a wide range of moral, legal and public policy problems involving medicine. One source of the problems addressed is the astonishingly swift progress that has been achieved in genetics, medical diagnosis, transplantation procedures, reproductive technologies, artificial organ systems, therapeutics, and other biomedical sciences. A second source is the steadily widening gap between the medical care available to the affluent and that available to the poor (particularly in developing nations). A third source is the recent explosive growth of medical costs.
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