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| Varying Form of Title: | Distributive justice and disability
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| ISBN: | 9780300128253
0300128258
0300100574
9780300100570
1281721883
9781281721884
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Theories of distributive justice are most severely tested in the area of disability. Mark Stein argues that utilitarianism performs better than egalitarian theories in this area: egalitarian theories help the disabled either too little or too much, while utilitarianism achieves the proper balance by placing resources where they will do the most good. Stein critiques the work of egalitarian theorists John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Amartya Sen, Bruce Ackerman, Martha Nussbaum, Norman Daniels, and others. He claims that egalitarians are often driven to borrow elements of utilitarianism in order to make their theories at all plausible. Stein concedes that both utilitarians and egalitarians face problems in the distribution of life-saving medical resources. He advocates a version of utilitarianism that would distribute life-saving resources based on life expectancy, not quality of life. Egalitarian theories ignore life expectancy and so are again found wanting.
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| Other form: | Print version: Stein, Mark S., 1958- Distributive justice & disability. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 0300100574 9780300100570
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