DALYs and the Minimally Good Life

Abstract Nicole Hassoun’s book Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines has three parts. Part 1 is about the right health, 2 offers a concrete proposal for how promote ability of people in developing world live minimally good lives and 3 concerned with consumer responsibility as it relates global health. I argue that there philosophical tension between respective projects Parts 2. The project reflects sufficientarian ideal, namely ensuring each person our community life. But, offered different maximizing health benefit. While these two ideals may often converge on set feasible outcomes we should aim bring about, they can also diverge. extent which diverge depends specification It therefore crucial have criterion distinguishing are at least from those not. Unfortunately, proposed problematic no life satisfies it.