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Health Care Distribution

The purpose of this research is to examine the implications of justice as fairness with regard to the distribution of health care in modern society, as elaborated by the thought of John Rawls and critiques of his thought. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which issues of the availability of medical procedures, services, medications, and other health-relevant goods, including those meant to serve the needs of the disabled arise in Rawls, and then to discuss, with reference to selected philosophers of justice and civil society, the relevance of Rawls's theory of justice to these issues.

To appreciate the implications of justice as fairness for issues of health-care delivery in a society where the evidence is that access to appropriate health care is uneven, it is useful to look at Rawls's view of how society itself is organized. Rawls's analysis of modern social structure is very much a critique of the fact that access to the benefits of civil society have not been sufficiently distributed and diffused through upper and lower classes, i.e., those best and least able to survive and flourish in society. In particular, Rawls rejects utilitarianism in its various forms as inadequate to the real-world needs of modern society or the alleged needs of utopian society. His bias is in favor of the potentialities of the contract theory of social organization "as represented by Locke, Rousseau, and Kant," although he acknowledges that there has been a gap between their moral philosophy and the real-world enactment thereof.

Therefore, while admitting that there are problems with the application of principles of liberal society to real-world conditions, Rawls takes the view that utilitarianism is not an appropriate answer to the problems with liberal philosophy. What Rawls calls the conceptualization of the "average" is the principle that society is optimally conceptualized as the result of achievement of the greate...

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