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A Social Division of Responsibility for Health

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Abstract

When is it fair that some people are less healthy than others due to their own individual choices and preferences? In this paper, I explore two alternative answers. The first is a luck-egalitarian account that holds people responsible for choices that society could have reasonably expected them to avoid. I argue that this account is indeterminate and go on to sketch an alternative proposal based on Rawls’s idea of a “social division of responsibility.” This latter approach connects the notion of responsibility for health to the social conditions under which health-related behaviour is developed.

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Author(s): Kniess J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Les ateliers de l'éthique

Year: 2018

Volume: 13

Issue: 3

Pages: 105–122

Online publication date: 20/06/2019

Acceptance date: 23/04/2019

Date deposited: 25/11/2019

ISSN (electronic): 1718-9977

Publisher: Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal

URL: https://doi.org/10.7202/1061221ar

DOI: 10.7202/1061221ar

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