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"Published for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc." Bibliography: p. 51-65.

An analysis of the role the government plays in American healthcare via the five main federal agencies responsible: the Public Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Venerans Administration, the National Institute of Health, and Medicare.

Adam Ferguson and Friedrich Hayek, separated by a period of almost two hundred years, made original yet similar contributions to the field of theoretical sociology. Ferguson, a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment, can be credited with laying the foundations of theoretical history by first proposing the idea that social institutions undergo evolutionary change. Ferguson theorized that while these institutions are formed by the actions of human beings, they are not the product of human design. Less than two centuries later, Hayek extended this insight to dealing with economic and social interaction. The essays in this collection deal with aspects of the life and work of these two thinkers.