Abstract
On Health Justice. Some Thoughts and Responses to Critics.
Highlights
It is with enormous gratitude that I begin this response to the six articles evaluating, critiquing, and proposing improvements to different aspects of the argument I presented in Health Justice.[1]
I am extremely grateful to the guest editors of this collection of articles, namely Alena Buyx, Eszter Kollar, and Sebastian Lauko€tter
Watching the making of this special issue has been a good reminder of how ones academic contributions are profoundly interwoven and interdependent with those of ones colleagues
Summary
It is with enormous gratitude that I begin this response to the six articles evaluating, critiquing, and proposing improvements to different aspects of the argument I presented in Health Justice.[1]. One way I modify Nordenfelts concept of health as the ability to achieve vital goals is that I fill in the vital goals with Nussbaums ten central human capabilities As she states, her list is not exhaustive, but the ten capability domains are a fixed minimum. Because I want to define health as the ability to achieve ten vital goals/basic capabilities, I specify Nussbaums second capability which refers to bodily health as relating to disease and impairment This means that being able to prevent, mitigate or recover from disease and impairment is an important component of health but only one of a cluster of components. The related point is that it seems too counter-intuitive to accept that based on the health capability idea, that the majority of people in a country are not healthy This worry may be tempered by a closer look at Nussbaums list of basic capabilities and her sufficiency thresholds.
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