2014-05-13
16 分钟This is philosophy bites with me, David.
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If we want to achieve a just society, one with fair and equal opportunity, should we be striving to reduce health inequalities?
Of course we should.
But how?
As Harvard philosopher Norman Daniels explains, this isn't a simple matter.
Health inequalities arise not just from unequal access to healthcare itself.
Social status and wealth affect health too.
Norman Daniels, welcome to philosophy Bites.
It's a pleasure to be here, and I hope we have a good conversation.
The topic we're focusing on today is the philosophy of healthcare.
That sounds like an unusual topic for a philosopher to be interested in.
How did you get into that?
Well, I can give you a somewhat autobiographical account, and it may not be a route that anyone else would follow, but I was trained as a philosopher of science, and the reason I went into philosophy of science was to learn more about theory acceptance.
So it became interesting to me in the early seventies that several theories of justice were advanced.
There was Rawls theory in 1971.
There was Nozick's reply in 1974.