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Book Justice by Lottery

Download or read book Justice by Lottery written by Barbara Goodwin and published by Imprint Academic (Ips). This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. This revised second edition includes a new introduction.

Book The Natural Lottery and Justice

Download or read book The Natural Lottery and Justice written by John William Rawcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Health  Luck  and Justice

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  • Author : Shlomi Segall
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0691140537
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Health Luck and Justice written by Shlomi Segall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. Combining philosophical analysis with a discussion of real-life public health issues, Health, Luck, and Justice addresses key questions: What is owed to patients who are in some way responsible for their own medical conditions? Could inequalities in health and life expectancy be just even when they are solely determined by the "natural lottery" of genes and other such factors? And is it just to allow political borders to affect the quality of health care and the distribution of health? Is it right, on the one hand, to break up national health care systems in multicultural societies? And, on the other hand, should our obligation to curb disparities in health extend beyond the nation-state? By focusing on the ways health is affected by the moral arbitrariness of luck, Health, Luck, and Justice provides an important new perspective on the ethics of national and international health policy.

Book A Theory of Justice

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  • Author : John RAWLS
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674042603
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book A Theory of Justice written by John RAWLS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Book Justice  Luck  and Knowledge

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  • Author : Susan L. Hurley
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780674017702
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Justice Luck and Knowledge written by Susan L. Hurley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice.

Book Justice by Lottery

Download or read book Justice by Lottery written by Barbara Goodwin and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. The first chapter is a utopian fragment about a future country, Aleatoria, where everything, including political power, jobs and money, is distributed by lottery. The rest of the book is devoted to considering the idea of the lottery in terms of the conventional components and assumptions of theories of justice, and to reviewing the possible applications of lottery distribution in contemporary society. This revised second edition includes a new introduction.

Book The State Lottery

Download or read book The State Lottery written by Case Hoogendoorn and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genetic Lottery

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  • Author : Kathryn Paige Harden
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-10-11
  • ISBN : 0691242100
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Genetic Lottery written by Kathryn Paige Harden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.

Book Justice Denied

Download or read book Justice Denied written by Tina Lewis and published by Elderberry Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when those entrusted to do the people's business betray that trust? This book points out that the American system of justice is endangered--case in point: Blaine Lewis Vs. The State of Connecticut.

Book A Theory of Justice

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  • Author : John Rawls
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-27
  • ISBN : 0674257677
  • Pages : 495 pages

Download or read book A Theory of Justice written by John Rawls and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. "Each person," writes Rawls, "possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override." Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.

Book The Elements of Justice

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  • Author : David Schmidtz
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-09
  • ISBN : 1139452037
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book The Elements of Justice written by David Schmidtz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due. However, what that means in practice depends on the context in which the question is raised. Depending on context, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need. Justice, therefore, is a constellation of elements that exhibit a degree of integration and unity. Nonetheless, the integrity of justice is limited, in a way that is akin to the integrity of a neighborhood rather than that of a building. A theory of justice offers individuals a map of that neighborhood, within which they can explore just what elements amount to justice.

Book Health Justice

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  • Author : Sridhar Venkatapuram
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 0745637507
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Health Justice written by Sridhar Venkatapuram and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophical approaches to health and social justice, the debates have largely focused on rationing problems in health care and on personal responsibility. However, a range of events over the past two decades such as the study of modern famines, the global experience of HIV/AIDS, the international women’s health movement, and the flourishing of social epidemiological research have drawn attention to the robust relationship between health and broad social arrangements. In Health Justice, Sridhar Venkatapuram takes up the problem of identifying what claims individuals have in regard to their health in modern societies and the globalized world. Recognizing the social bases of health and longevity, Venkatapuram extends the ‘Capabilities Approach’ of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum into the domain of health and health sciences. In so doing, he formulates an inter-disciplinary argument that draws on the natural and social sciences as well as debates around social justice to argue for every human being’s moral entitlement to a capability to be healthy. An ambitious integration of the health sciences and the Capabilities Approach, Health Justice aims to provide a concrete ethical grounding for the human right to health, while advancing the field of health policy and placing health at the centre of social justice theory. With a foreword by Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.

Book Random Justice

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  • Author : Neil Duxbury
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002-07
  • ISBN : 9780199253531
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Random Justice written by Neil Duxbury and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial book explores the potential for the use of lotteries in social, and particularly legal, decision-making contexts. Neil Duxbury considers in detail the history, advantages, and drawbacks of deciding issues of social significance by lot and argues that the value of the lottery as a legal decision-making device has generally been underestimated.

Book Justice and Health Care

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  • Author : E.E. Shelp
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9400983921
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Justice and Health Care written by E.E. Shelp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethics is a discipline still not fully explored in spite of its rather remark able expansion and sophistication during the past two decades. The prolifer ation of courses in bioethics at educational institutions of every description gives testimony to an intense academic interest in its concerns. The media have catapulted the dilemmas of bioethics out of the laboratory and library into public view arid discussion with a steady report of the so-called 'mira cles of modern medicine' and the moral perplexities which frequently accom pany them. The published work of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and others represents a substantial and growing body of literature which explores relevant concepts and issues. Commitments have been made by existing in stitutions, and new institutions have been chartered to further the discussion of the strategic moral concerns that attend recent scientific and medical progress. This volume focuses attention on one of the numerous topics of interest within bioethics. Specifically, an examination is made of the implications of the principle of justice for health care. Apart from four essays in Ethics and Health Policy edited by Robert Veatch and Roy Branson [4] the dis cussion of justice and health care has been occasional, almost non-existent, and scattered. The paucity of literature in this area is regrettable but perhaps understandable. On the one hand, Joseph Fletcher, one of the contemporary pioneers in bioethics, can hold that "distributive justice is the core or key question for biomedical ethics" ([1], p. 102).

Book Justice and Global Politics  Volume 23  Part 1

Download or read book Justice and Global Politics Volume 23 Part 1 written by Ellen Frankel Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, there has been increasing interest in the global dimensions of a host of public policy issues - issues involving war and peace, terrorism, international law, regulation of commerce, environmental protection, and disparities of wealth, income, and access to medical care. Especially pressing is the question of whether it is possible to formulate principles of justice that are valid not merely within a single society but across national borders. The thirteen essays in this volume explore a range of issues that are central to contemporary discussions of global politics. Written by prominent philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal theorists, they offer valuable contributions to current debates over the nature of justice and its implications for the development of international law and international institutions.

Book John Rawls  Principles of justice I

Download or read book John Rawls Principles of justice I written by Chandran Kukathas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Curious Lottery

Download or read book The Curious Lottery written by Walter Duranty and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: