Health, Luck, and Justice (eBook)

Shlomi Segall (Autor)

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2009
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3171-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Luck egalitarianism"e;--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first attempt to systematically apply luck egalitarianism to the just distribution of health and health care. Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, Shlomi Segall develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck. Combining philosophical analysis with a discussion of real-life public health issues, Health, Luck, and Justice addresses key questions: What is owed to patients who are in some way responsible for their own medical conditions? Could inequalities in health and life expectancy be just even when they are solely determined by the "e;natural lottery"e; of genes and other such factors? And is it just to allow political borders to affect the quality of health care and the distribution of health? Is it right, on the one hand, to break up national health care systems in multicultural societies? And, on the other hand, should our obligation to curb disparities in health extend beyond the nation-state? By focusing on the ways health is affected by the moral arbitrariness of luck, Health, Luck, and Justice provides an important new perspective on the ethics of national and international health policy.

Autor

Shlomi Segall is lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Integrative Program of Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science (PEP) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Affordable Housing • A Theory of Justice • bodily integrity • Capability Approach • caregiver • Civic nationalism • Civil Society • Collective responsibility • Consideration • Cosmopolitanism • Cultural diversity • deference • Democracy • Development as freedom • disadvantage • distributive justice • egalitarianism • epidemiology • Equal Footing • Equality before the law • Equality of outcome • Equal Opportunity • ethics • Euphemism • fertility • Food Safety • Global Health • Global Justice • Health • Health Affairs • Health Care • Health Economics • Health effect • health equity • health expenditures • health intervention • Health Leads • health policy • Health Promotion • Health system • human enhancement • Human Rights • income • Indication (medicine) • insurance • Justice as Fairness • just society • Legitimacy (political) • Leveling (philosophy) • liberal eugenics • Liberalism • Life Expectancy • Luck Egalitarianism • Medical Ethics • moral imperative • Morality • moral responsibility • moral universalism • national security • natural resource • Obligation • Occupational Safety and Health • Original Position • paternalism • Patient satisfaction • Patriotism • Political Liberalism • Population health • Primary goods • Prioritarianism • Public Health • Public Health Ethics • Public health insurance option • Public Service • quality of life • rational agent • Reflective equilibrium • Requirement • rights • self care • Self-determination • self-esteem • self-fulfillment • Self-Interest • Self-ownership • Sense of Community • social determinants of health • social equality • Social Justice • Solidarity • Spheres of justice • Suggestion • Symptom • The True Cost • universal health care • Value (ethics) • Value Pluralism • welfare • well-being
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3171-7 / 1400831717
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3171-5 / 9781400831715