Is Liberty Bad for Your Health? Towards a Moderate View of the Robust Coequality of Liberty and Health

Public Health Ethics 4 (3):260-268 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This article challenges the idea that the priority of liberty poses a threat to individual and population health. While acknowledging there are cases in which liberty does indeed pose a threat to the health of individuals and populations, I argue that the tension between liberty and health is overstated and that much can be done to relieve this tension. Indeed, liberty and health can and should be viewed as co-equal values in our broader conception of health justice. My thesis is moderate to the extent it acknowledges limits to the coequal status of these twin values; robust to the extent it conceives legitimate health interventions as the outcome of complex and multiperspectival processes of deliberative testing

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The liberty principle and universal health care.Benjamin Sachs - 2008 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18 (2):pp. 149-172.
How compatible are liberty and equality in structuring a health care system?Paul T. Menzel - 2003 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (3):281 – 306.
Concepts of health and disease.Jozsef Kovacs - 1989 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 14 (3):261-267.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-07-12

Downloads
46 (#303,526)

6 months
5 (#244,107)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations