Just Health (Care) : Social Justice, Health and the Common Good
Journal
Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
ISSN
1439-880X
ISSN-Digital
1862-0043
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2012-04
Author(s)
Abstract
The answer to the question of how to deal with the widening gap between the growing costs of health (care) and necessarily limited health (care) resources in a just fashion, heavily depends on what we take the term ‘just', to signify. This article is meant to offer a perspective on the topic of just health (care) which takes the idea of justice as virtue seriously by embedding it in the context of its original explication, namely an onto-teleological philosophy which takes (social) justice to be about claim-rights (as well as their corresponding duties) and the common good. This article is, however, not meant to provide ready-made answers or a discussion of the arguments featuring in the contemporary debate about health (care) prioritisation and/or rationing. It rather takes up the cudgels on behalf of the concept of the common good and reminds us of the fact that if we want to talk about (social) justice and just health (care) we cannot do so without also talking about the common good.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Hampp
Publisher place
Mering
Volume
13
Number
1
Start page
31
End page
49
Pages
19
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
212892