Abstract
The development of oral immunotherapy in food allergy calls for ethical reflection. Material norms of justice are expected when individuals are entitled to receive particular goods due to their health condition, while their availability is not total. After outlining how these issues arise in medical literature, this paper draws on Aristotle's philosophy to present the dual face of justice: while it is socially indispensable, it is also an individual virtue. Contemporary doctrines propose competing standards for the allocation of goods, ranging from utilitarianism to procedural justice. For the clinician, torn between the care of the individual patient and collective concerns, the virtue of justice may be the only way to resolve dilemmas that principles alone cannot address.
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