Health inequities and social justice
Faden, R.R.; Powers, M. · Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz · 2008 · Heft 2 · S. 151 bis 157
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Zusammenfassung
Recently we argued that social justice is concerned with human well-being, which is best understood as involving plural, irreducible dimensions, each of which represents something of independent moral significance. Health is one of these distinct dimensions of well-being, as is personal security, the development and exercise of cognitive capacities for reasoning, living under conditions of social respect, developing and sustaining deep personal attachments, and being able to lead self-determining lives. In this paper, we address why considerations of justice, and not utilitarian aims as applied narrowly to healt…