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21.08.2019 | Book Review

What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice, and Health

Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, eds, 2017, Oxford University Press (New York, NY, 978-0-19-938526-3, 336 pp.)

verfasst von: Polly Mitchell

Erschienen in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Ausgabe 3/2019

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Abstract

Carina Fourie and Annette Rid’s edited volume What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice, and Health comprises fifteen original contributions which explore the possibility of a sufficientarian approach to healthcare priority setting and resource allocation. Sufficientarianism is a well-established theory of distributive justice, which tells us that justice requires that each person has “enough,” and assigns particular importance to a threshold level of goods under which no person must fall. Sufficiency is under-explored as a distributive principle in the healthcare context, and this book makes a strong case for its inclusion among more familiar principles of justice such as utility, priority to the worst off, and equality.
Fußnoten
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Harry Frankfurt’s formulation of the principle of sufficiency, for example, is largely rejected, as is Roger Crisp’s account (Frankfurt 1987; Crisp 2003).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice, and Health
Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, eds, 2017, Oxford University Press (New York, NY, 978-0-19-938526-3, 336 pp.)
verfasst von
Polly Mitchell
Publikationsdatum
21.08.2019
Verlag
Springer Singapore
Erschienen in
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 1176-7529
Elektronische ISSN: 1872-4353
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-019-09936-y

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