What is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health

0467496 - ÚSP 2017 GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Gosseries, Axel
Intergenerational Justice, Sufficiency and Health.
What is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health. Oxford University Press, 2016 - (Fourie, C.; Rid, A.). ISBN 9780199385263
Keywords : sufficientarianism * intergenerational justice * health care

In this chapter, the implications of intergenerational sufficientarianism for health-related issues are discussed. First, the chapter presents intergenerational sufficientarianism and specifies three of its key features: moderate noncleronomicity, a qualified authorization to save and dissave, and two characteristics of its metrics. It also discusses two specific defenses of sufficientarianism in the intergenerational realm. Second, the chapter applies the sufficientarian framework with an isolationist approach to three health-related issues: patent length, eradication versus control, and antibiotic resistance. Finally, it discusses whether isolationism is more defensible in the case of intergenerational sufficientarianism than it could possibly be for other theories of justice.
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