The Metric and the Threshold Problem for Theories of Health Justice: A Comment on Venkatapuram
Any theory of health justice requires an account of what areas of social life are important enough to be of public concern. What are the goods that ought to be provided as a matter of justice? This is what I will call the metric problem. The capabilities approach puts forward a particular solution t...
| Published in: | Bioethics |
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
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| Review of: | Health justice (Cambridge : Polity, 2011) (Schramme, Thomas)
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| RelBib Classification: | NCC Social ethics NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
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B Capabilities Approach B healthism B Sufficientarianism B Venkatapuram B health justice B Public health |
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| Summary: | Any theory of health justice requires an account of what areas of social life are important enough to be of public concern. What are the goods that ought to be provided as a matter of justice? This is what I will call the metric problem. The capabilities approach puts forward a particular solution to this problem. In this article I will discuss some issues of such an approach in relation to Sridhar Venkatapuram's well-known theory. Another problem I examine is how to determine a threshold of provision within a theory of justice. What is enough in terms of health justice? I argue that we need such a threshold to avoid healthism, the expansion of the pursuit of health over and above the treatment and prevention of disease. This is an especially pertinent problem in public health, which is also the context of Venkatapuram's theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "On Health Justice. Some Thoughts and Responses to Critics (2016)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12218 |