Capabilities and the Definition of Health: Comments on Venkatapuram

Sridhar Venkatapuram's Health Justice argues that health is a ‘metacapability’ - specifically, as the metacapability of having the ten ‘central human capabilities’ described by Martha Nussbaum. This cannot be right, as it provides no basis for distinguishing health from education, riches, or lo...

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1. VerfasserIn: Richardson, Henry S. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Venkatapuram, Sridhar (VerfasserIn des Bezugswerks)
Medienart: Elektronisch Review
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Bioethics
Jahr: 2016, Band: 30, Heft: 1, Seiten: 1-7
Rezension von:Health justice (Cambridge : Polity, 2011) (Richardson, Henry S.)
IxTheo Notationen:NCH Medizinische Ethik
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Lennart Nordenfelt
B Martha Nussbaum
B Rezension
B Amartya Sen
B Health
B Capabilities
B Christopher Boorse
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Zusammenfassung:Sridhar Venkatapuram's Health Justice argues that health is a ‘metacapability’ - specifically, as the metacapability of having the ten ‘central human capabilities’ described by Martha Nussbaum. This cannot be right, as it provides no basis for distinguishing health from education, riches, or love. An amendment correcting this problem is suggested, namely that health is the involuntary, bodily aspect of the metacapability for the central capabilities. This amendment is defended against the objection that it fails to capture some important aspects of mental health.
ISSN:1467-8519
Bezug:Kritik in "On Health Justice. Some Thoughts and Responses to Critics (2016)"
Enthält:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12219