Search for dissertations about: "luck-egalitarianism"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word luck-egalitarianism.

2. 1. Your Treatment, My Treat? : On Lifestyle-Related Ill Health and Reasonable Responsibilitarianism

   Author : Max Fonseca; Ludvig Beckman; Jouni Reinikainen; Kristin Voigt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; responsibilitarianism; lifestyle; health; distributive justice; contractualism; Thomas Scanlon; luck-egalitarianism; the harshness objection; free will; accountability responsibility; sin-taxes; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : How should the costs of unhealthy lifestyles be distributed between individual citizens and the state? This study approaches this question by investigating the justifiability of the responsibilitarian idea that people who are responsible for their lifestyle-choices should also be held responsible for the costs that these lifestyle-choices generate.Two main conclusions come out of this investigation. READ MORE

4. 2. Just responsibilities? On responsibility for health in Swedish healthcare priority setting

   Author : Joar Björk; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The overarching aim of this project is to explore, empirically as well as philosophically, the arguments for and against making Swedish healthcare priority setting decisions sensitive to patients’ degree of responsibility for their ill health. Arguments of interest are those expressed by important stakeholders in the debate – physicians, lay people and, as this is a matter of some theoretical importance, bioethicists. READ MORE