{"product_id":"health-luck-and-justice-9780691140537","title":"Health Luck and Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, the author 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Segall ably defends why she thinks luck egalitarian theory, with important modifications to prevent the total abandonment of patients, provides a better solution for problems in health care allocation than other theories of justice do. This important, thought-provoking book is distinctive in defending the claim that so-called enhancement technologies should be made available to some as a matter of justice.\"--Choice \"This is a thought-provoking volume deserving of a wide readership among academics and health professionals and health policy analysts who must struggle with the challenges of trying to create a more just health care system that gives due regard to issues of personal responsibility for one's own health status and costs that might be imposed on social budgets.\"--Leonard M. Fleck, Notre Dame Philosophical Review \"Although I approached the book with a broadly similar ... stance to Segall's, I found the arguments took many unexpected turns, though never in a way so as to leave me lost. Any political philosopher or bioethicist will come away from the book knowing much more about both luck egalitarianism and philosophical approaches to health and healthcare.\"--Carl Knight, Iyyun \"[A]mbitious, rich, and challenging... It is bound to provoke much more extensive discussion.\"--Daniel M. Hausman, Economics and Philosophy \"Segall's book is an important contribution to the discussion of justice in health care which shows how far theories of justice, especially a luck egalitarian approach can deal with the normative problems we face in this context. But it is also important in showing the limits of theories of justice when we think about the value of health in our overall scheme of good lives and human flourishing.\"--Michael Quante, Medicine Health Care and Philosophy \"Segall raises the standard for the burgeoning philosophical discussions on health and social justice and gives us much novel material for further consideration. Graduate students and academics interested in political philosophy and health ethics will find this book interesting and a rich resource. It is clearly written, rigorously argued, and thoroughly engaged with relevant literature.\"--Sridhar Venkatapuram, Sociology of Health \u0026amp; Illness \"Whether the ethical solution is (or can be) implemented on the national or transnational, or state or local levels, remains to be seen, but this book is an interesting first step.\"--Elizabeth Ann Danto, European Legacy \"His view that luck egalitarians should be concerned only with inequalities is at least plausible. Like many other arguments in this significant contribution to the egalitarian literature, it is certain to spark considerable debate.\"--Kristi A. Olson, Perspectives on Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface iv  Introduction 1      Chapter 1: Justice, Luck, and Equality 9  I. Rawlsian vs. Luck Egalitarian Justice 10  II. Inequality vs. Equality 14  III. Reasonable Avoidability vs. Responsibility 19      Part I Health Care 27      Chapter 2: Responsibility- Insensitive Health Care 29  I. The Fair Opportunity Account 30  II. Opportunities and Life Plans 34  III. Th e Democratic Equality Account 37      Chapter 3: Ultra- Responsibility- Sensitive Health Care: \"All- Luck Egalitarianism\" 45  I. A Test Case: Justifying Medical Treatment for Smoking- Related Diseases 46  II. Some Preliminary Problems with All- Luck Egalitarianism 48  III. What's Wrong with Neutralizing Luck as Such? 51  IV. All- Luck Egalitarianism, Moral Luck, and Desert 54      Chapter 4: Tough Luck? Why Luck Egalitarians Need  Not Abandon Reckless Patients 58  I. Luck Egalitarian Attempts to Defl ect the Abandonment Objection 59  II. Value Pluralism 64  III. Three Objections to Luck Egalitarian Value Pluralism 66  IV. A Potential Solution? 68      Chapter 5: Responsibility- Sensitive Universal Health Care 74  I. Meeting Basic Needs 75  II. Health Care as a Public Good 78  III. Some Counter- Objections and Clarifi cations 80  IV. In- Kind Health Care 83      Part II: Health 87      Chapter 6: Why Justice in Health? 89  I. Is Health Care (Still) Special? 89  II. Why a Separate Th eory of Justice in Health? 92      Chapter 7: Luck Egalitarian Justice in Health 98  I. Rawlsian vs. Luck Egalitarian Justice in Health 99  II. Two Problems with Fair Equality of Opportunity for Health 101  III. Health Inequalities between the Sexes Revisited 105      Chapter 8: Equality or Priority in Health? 111  I. The Value of Equality in Health 112  II. Some Potential Objections and Qualifi cations 115  III. Luck Prioritarian Justice in Health 118      Chapter 9: Distributing Human Enhancements 121  I. What Is Human Enhancement? 122  II. The Treatment vs. Enhancement Distinction 124  III. \"Fair\" Skin and Other Potential Objections 130  IV. Equality or Priority in Enhancement? 133      Part III: Health without Borders 137      Chapter 10: Devolution of Health Care Services 139  I. The Case for Devolution 141  II. How Devolution Upsets Distributive Justice 143  III. Ignoring Cultural Preferences in Health Care 144  IV. How Devolution Weakens Social Solidarity 148  V. Imposing a Uniform Pattern of Consumption 150      Chapter 11: Global Justice and National Responsibility for Health 153  I. Justice, Responsibility, and Double Standards 155  II. \"The Health of Nations\" and the Global Economic Order 158  III. Holding Nations Responsible for Th eir Health 160  IV. National Responsibility and Future Generations 162  V. Equality or Suffi ciency in Global Health? 165  VI. Intergalactic Egalitarianism 168      Conclusion 171  Notes 175  Bibliography 221  Index 235","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403766702423,"sku":"9780691140537","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/health-luck-and-justice-9780691140537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}