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J. Paul Kelleher, Real and Alleged Problems for Daniels’s Account of Health Justice, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 38, Issue 4, August 2013, Pages 388–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jht027
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Abstract
Norman Daniels’s theory of health justice is the most comprehensive and systematic such theory we have. In one of the few articles published so far on Daniels’s new book, Just Health, Benjamin Sachs argues that Daniels’s core “principle of equality of opportunity does not do the work Daniels needs it to do.” Yet Sachs’s objections to Daniels’s framework are deeply flawed. Where these arguments do not rely on significant misreadings of Daniels, they ignore sensible strands in Just Health that considerably dull their force. After disarming Sachs’s arguments against Daniels’s theory, I explain why I agree with Sachs’s conclusion: Daniels’s equality of opportunity-based account of health justice rests on shaky foundations.