Health, luck, and justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Segall, Shlomi, 1970- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | x, 239 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7885195 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Justice, Luck, and Equality
- I. Rawlsian vs. Luck Egalitarian Justice
- II. Inequality vs. Equality
- III. Reasonable Avoidability vs. Responsibility
- Part I. Health Care
- 2. Responsibility-Insensitive Health Care
- I. The Fair Opportunity Account
- II. Opportunities and Life Plans
- III. The Democratic Equality Account
- 3. Ultra-Responsibility-Sensitive Health Care: "All-Luck Egalitarianism"
- I. A Test Case: Justifying Medical Treatment for Smoking-Related Diseases
- II. Some Preliminary Problems with All-Luck Egalitarianism
- III. What's Wrong with Neutralizing Luck as Such?
- IV. All-Luck Egalitarianism, Moral Luck, and Desert
- 4. Tough Luck? Why Luck Egalitarians Need Not Abandon Reckless Patients
- I. Luck Egalitarian Attempts to Deflect the Abandonment Objection
- II. Value Pluralism
- III. Three Objections to Luck Egalitarian Value Pluralism
- IV. A Potential Solution?
- 5. Responsibility-Sensitive Universal Health Care
- I. Meeting Basic Needs
- II. Health Care as a Public Good
- III. Some Counter-Objections and Clarifications
- IV. In-Kind Health Care
- Part II. Health
- 6. Why Justice in Health?
- I. Is Health Care (Still) Special?
- II. Why a Separate Theory of Justice in Health?
- 7. Luck Egalitarian Justice in Health
- I. Rawlsian vs. Luck Egalitarian Justice in Health
- II. Two Problems with Fair Equality of Opportunity for Health
- III. Health Inequalities between the Sexes Revisited
- 8. Equality or Priority in Health?
- I. The Value of Equality in Health
- II. Some Potential Objections and Qualifications
- III. Luck Prioritarian Justice in Health
- 9. Distributing Human Enhancements
- I. What Is Human Enhancement?
- II. The Treatment vs. Enhancement Distinction
- III. "Fair&rquo; Skin and Other Potential Objections
- IV. Equality or Priority in Enhancement?
- Part III. Health without Borders
- 10. Devolution of Health Care Services
- I. The Case for Devolution
- II. How Devolution Upsets Distributive Justice
- III. Ignoring Cultural Preferences in Health Care
- IV. How Devolution Weakens Social Solidarity
- V. Imposing a Uniform Pattern of Consumption
- 11. Global Justice and National Responsibility for Health
- I. Justice, Responsibility, and Double Standards
- II. "The Health of Nations&rquo; and the Global Economic Order
- III. Holding Nations Responsible for Their Health
- IV. National Responsibility and Future Generations
- V. Equality or Sufficiency in Global Health?
- VI. Intergalactic Egalitarianism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
