Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is currently spent on prevention as compared to treatment? / Charles Roehrig ... [et al.] -- Prevention vs. cure : an economist's perspective on the right balance / Louise B. Russell -- Toward a more evidence-based preventive medicine : issues in the science of clinical prevention / Robert B. Wallace -- Prevention and the science and politics of evidence / Diana B. Petitti -- Historical perspectives on structural barriers to prevention / Halley S. Faust -- Our alleviation bias : why do we value alleviating harm more than preventing harm? / Halley S. Faust -- Treatment and prevention : what do we owe each other? / Norman Daniels -- The variable value of life and fairness to the already ill : two promising but tenuous arguments for treatment's priority / Paul T. Menzel -- The slow transition of U.S. law toward a greater emphasis on prevention / Thaddeus Mason Pope -- Should the value of future health benefits be time-discounted? / Paul T. Menzel -- Prevention vs. treatment : how do we allocate scarce resources from Jewish ethical perspectives? / Alan Jotkowitz and Shimon Glick -- Cure vs. prevention : Catholic perspectives / Nuala Kenny -- Loving God and the neighbor : Protestant insights for prevention and treatment / Ana Marie Vigen -- Apocalypse and health : treatment and prevention in the Seventh-day Adventist tradition / Roy Branson -- Prevention vs. treatment in Hong Kong : constrained utilitarianism with a Chinese character / Ho Mun Chan.