Lingering problems of currency and scope in Daniels's argument for a societal obligation to meet health needs.

نویسنده

  • Benjamin Sachs
چکیده

Norman Daniels's new book, Just Health, brings together his decades of work on the problem of justice and health. It improves on earlier writings by discussing how we can meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all and by attending to the implications of the socioeconomic determinants of health. In this article I return to the core idea around which the entire theory is built: that the principle of equality of opportunity grounds a societal obligation to meet health needs. I point, first, that nowhere does Daniels say just what version of that principle he accepts. I then proceed to construct a principle on his behalf, based on a faithful reading of Just Health. Once we actually nail down the principle, I argue, we will find that there are two problems: it is implausible in itself, and it fails to ground a societal obligation to meet health needs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of medicine and philosophy

دوره 35 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010