@inbook{10.7758/9781610446792.10,
 ISBN = {9780871546593},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610446792.10},
 abstract = {This paper is an essay in prescriptive diagnosis. It represents my attempt to show that many different “social problems” can be analyzed as separate symptoms of the same disease. The diagnosis, as such, may be accepted without agreeing that the disease amounts to much or that, indeed, it is disease at all. Prescription for improvement or cure is suggested only if the disease is acknowledged to be serious. Even if the diagnosis and prescription be accepted, however, prospects for “better social health” may not be bright because, as the analysis demonstrates, the source of difficulty may lie in modern man’s},
 author = {James M. Buchanan},
 booktitle = {Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory},
 pages = {71--86},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {The Samaritan’s Dilemma},
 year = {1975}
}