What Is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health

What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide the worst off with the
best possible health. Another approach is to aim for each person to have enough so that her health or access to health care does not fall under a critical level. This latter approach is called sufficientarian.

Sufficientarian approaches to distributive justice are intuitively appealing, but require further analysis and assessment. What exactly is sufficiency? Why do we need it? What does it imply for the just distribution of health or healthcare? This volume offers fresh perspectives on these critical
questions. Philosophers, bioethicists, health policy-makers, and health economists investigate sufficiency and its application to health and health care in fifteen original contributions.


Author: Carina Fourie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/28/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199385263

About the Author

Carina Fourie is the Benjamin Rabinowitz Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Previously she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the University of Zurich, and she has a PhD in Philosophy from University College London. Her central research interests include social justice and equality, and their application to health and health care policy. She has published widely in philosophy, medical ethics and health policy journals, including Res Publica, Bioethics and Health Policy, and is the co-editor of a collected volume on social equality, published by Oxford University Press.

Annette Rid is Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London and an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center. Trained in medicine, philosophy and bioethics in Germany, Switzerland and the US, Annette's research interests span research ethics, clinical ethics and justice in health and health care. Annette has published widely in medical journals (e.g. Lancet, JAMA) and bioethics journals (e.g. Journal of Medical Ethics, Hastings Center Report). She has served as an advisor, among others, for the World Health Organization, the World Medical Association and the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences. At King's, Annette has lead the new MA in Bioethics & Society as one of its inaugural co-directors.