Andras Miklos, Ph.D. Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

Seminar TopicJustice and International Health Inequalities
The seminar investigates the moral significance of international health inequalities. The question it raises is whether, beyond generating humanitarian requirements to reduce suffering and prevent easily preventable deaths, international health inequalities are unjust as well? In its course we’ll critically consider some strategies for limiting the scope of egalitarian requirements in health care to national institutional schemes. Such limitation might be thought to follow from deriving a requirement of equal respect and egalitarian distributive requirements from the need to justify the use of coercive force by states against their citizens, or from attributing a foundational role to politically governed cooperation in grounding requirements of distributive justice, or from attributing key significance to the pervasive effect of domestic political and social institutions on individual life-chances in giving rise to requirements of justice. In response to such theories, we’ll discuss a position according to which international health inequalities are unjust in the sense of violating egalitarian requirements of justice and do not merely present for us humanitarian reasons to reduce them.

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