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Is it ethical to exclude ill people from medical treatment because it is too expensive? And vice versa, how can the healthcare system be financially sustainable if everybody receives all the effective medical treatment available irrespective of its costs. While rationing of healthcare and care services is a politically taboo topic, it is a subject that has been addressed intensively in academia for more than a decade. Resulting from a joint series of lectures by the Catholic Private University and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz in the winter semester 2017/18, this publication provides an interdisciplinary overview of the key issues involved in this debate. It addresses the inherent tensions between economic and ethical approaches and, based on the interdisciplinary dialogue between ethics, economics and theology, outlines ways of realising good healthcare and care provision with limited means. With contributions by Bernhard Emunds, Michael Fuchs, Gerd Glaeske, Dorothea Greiling, Christine Haberlander, Michaela Haunold, Lukas Kaelin, Bettina Leibetseder, Elisabeth Menschl, Walter Mitterndorfer, Peter Niedermoser, Michael Rosenberger, Claudia Wild