In:
International Journal of Health Services, SAGE Publications, Vol. 46, No. 4 ( 2016-10), p. 734-746
Abstract:
This article argues that current, mainstream, liberal approaches to the right to health and to bioethics are not adequately aware of the structural and political character of health and illness. We propose a radical egalitarian definition of the right to health as the basis for the discussion of a republican egalitarian perspective on bioethics that redefines autonomy and stresses the importance of equality, political participation, and the common good. The violations of the right to health in unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel are analyzed to exemplify the possibilities opened by the republican egalitarian approach.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0020-7314
,
1541-4469
DOI:
10.1177/0020731415594601
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2016
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2096720-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
3156551-7
