public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. it is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. for this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...

Whether culture is a determinant of economic growth remains a core question in development economics. Sharing norms, in particular, have often been the focus of interest due to their influence on redistribution and incentives for productive activity. Yet, little is known about the relative importance of such norms in developing countries, and whether these norms are fully internalized or domain...

Abstract According to relational egalitarianism, justice requires equal relations. The theory applies those who stand in the relevant social In this paper, I distinguish four different accounts of what it means be socially related and argue that all them, self-relations—how a person relates themselves—fall within scope egalitarianism. also point how constrains is allowed do themselves.

The scarcity of livers available for transplants forces tough choices upon us. Lives for those not receiving a transplant are likely to be short. One large group of potential recipients needs a new liver because of alcohol consumption, while others suffer for reasons unrelated to their own behaviour. Should the former group receive lower priority when scarce livers are allocated? This discussio...

It is generally recognised that the potential positive and negative impacts of geoengineering will be distributed unevenly both geographically and temporally. The question of distributive justice in geoengineering thus is one of the major ethical issues associated with geoengineering. Currently, the question of distributive justice in geoengineering is framed in terms of who gets what (potentia...

The Specter of Liberal Egalitarianism - Katrina Forrester: In the Shadow Justice: Postwar Liberalism and Remaking Political Philosophy. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 432.) Volume 84 Issue 3

Public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. It is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. For this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...