Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach

MEDICAL ETHICS Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach

Lifestyle diseases constitute an increasing proportion of health problems and this trend is likely to continue. A better understanding of the responsibility argument is important for the assessment of policies aimed at meeting this challenge. Holding individuals accountable for their choices in the context of health care is, however, controversial. There are powerful arguments both for and agai...

Responsibility in health care: a liberal egalitarian approach.

Lifestyle diseases constitute an increasing proportion of health problems and this trend is likely to continue. A better understanding of the responsibility argument is important for the assessment of policies aimed at meeting this challenge. Holding individuals accountable for their choices in the context of health care is, however, controversial. There are powerful arguments both for and agai...

Social inequality in health, responsibility and egalitarian justice.

Are social inequalities in health unjust when brought about by differences in lifestyle? A widespread idea, luck egalitarianism, is that inequality stemming from individuals' free choices is not to be considered unjust, since individuals, presumably, are themselves responsible for such choices. Thus, to the extent that lifestyles are in fact results of free choices, social inequality in health ...

" on Responsibility-sensitive Egalitarian Allocation Rules 1 "

0. Introduction Marc Fleurbaey’s (2009) recently published book is a milestone in the study of responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism. The core of the book consists in the advocacy of several allocation rules which implement, to the extent possible, the compensation principle (that individuals should be compensated for disadvantageous circumstances which are beyond their control), and the libe...

Appeals to individual responsibility for health--reconsidering the luck egalitarian perspective.