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...

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Главный автор: Schramme, Thomas 1969- (Автор)
Другие авторы: Venkatapuram, Sridhar (библиографическое прошлое)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Review
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
В: Bioethics
Год: 2016, Том: 30, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 19-24
Рецензировано:Health justice (Cambridge : Polity, 2011) (Schramme, Thomas)
Индексация IxTheo:NCC Социальная этика
NCH Медицинская этика
VA Философия
Другие ключевые слова:B Capabilities Approach
B healthism
B Sufficientarianism
B Рецензия
B Venkatapuram
B health justice
B Народное здравоохранение
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1467-8519
Reference:Kritik in "On Health Justice. Some Thoughts and Responses to Critics (2016)"
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12218