Health, Luck, and Justice.

By:

Segall, Shlomi, 1970- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780691140537
0691140537
9781400831715
1400831717

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health, luck, and justice.DDC classification:

362.1 22

LOC classification:

RA418 .S412 2009eb

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Contents:

Segall00fm.i_xii.indd-revised; segall01intro.001_008.indd; segall02ch01.009_026.indd; segall03ch02.027_044.indd; segall04ch03.045_057.indd; segall05ch04.058_073.indd; segall06ch05.074_086.indd; segall07ch06.087_097.indd; segall08ch07.098_110.indd; segall09ch08.111_120.indd; segall10ch09.121_136.indd; segall11ch10.137_152.indd; segall12ch11.153_170.indd; segall13concl. 171_174.indd; segall14notes. 175_220.indd; segall15bib. 221_234.indd; segall16index. 235_240.indd.

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.

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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.