What is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health
Carina Fourie and Annette Rid
Abstract
What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide the worst-off with the best possible health. Another approach is to aim for each person to have “enough” so that her health or access to health care does not fall under a critical level. This latter approach is called sufficientarian. Sufficientarian approaches to distributive justice are intuitively appealing, but they require ... More
What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide the worst-off with the best possible health. Another approach is to aim for each person to have “enough” so that her health or access to health care does not fall under a critical level. This latter approach is called sufficientarian. Sufficientarian approaches to distributive justice are intuitively appealing, but they require further analysis and assessment. What exactly is sufficiency? Why do we need it? What does it imply for the just distribution of health or health care? This volume offers fresh perspectives on these critical questions. Philosophers, bioethicists, health policymakers, and health economists investigate sufficiency and its application to health and health care in 15 original contributions.
Keywords:
sufficiency,
justice,
distribution,
health,
health care,
equality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199385263 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385263.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Carina Fourie, editor
Benjamin Rabinowitz Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Washington, Seattle
Annette Rid, editor
Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King's College London
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