{"product_id":"health-luck-and-justice-shlomi-segall-9780691140537","title":"Health, Luck, and Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Luck egalitarianism\"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first attempt to systematically apply luck egalitarianism to the just distribution of health and health care. Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, Shlomi Segall develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining philosophical analysis with a discussion of real-life public health issues, \u003ci\u003eHealth, Luck, and Justice\u003c\/i\u003e addresses key questions: What is owed to patients who are in some way responsible for their own medical conditions? Could inequalities in health and life expectancy be just even when they are solely determined by the \"natural lottery\" of genes and other such factors? And is it just to allow political borders to affect the quality of health care and the distribution of health? Is it right, on the one hand, to break up national health care systems in multicultural societies? And, on the other hand, should our obligation to curb disparities in health extend beyond the nation-state? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By focusing on the ways health is affected by the moral arbitrariness of luck, \u003ci\u003eHealth, Luck, and Justice\u003c\/i\u003e provides an important new perspective on the ethics of national and international health policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shlomi Segall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691140537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691140537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2009 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009 pg. 77","brand":"Shlomi Segall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799391318271,"sku":"9780691140537","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/health-luck-and-justice-shlomi-segall-9780691140537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}