Health, Luck, and Justice.

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Author / Creator:Segall, Shlomi, 1970- author.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (253 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282983
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ISBN:9780691140537
0691140537
9781400831715
1400831717
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.
English.
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Summary:Luck egalitarianism--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.
Other form:Print version: Segall, Shlomi, 1970- Health, luck, and justice. Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2010