Health, Luck, and Justice
Shlomi Segall
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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.
Cloth | $35.00 / £24.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14053-7
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