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BAYER REVISITED
Author(s) -
ILLINGWORTH PATRICIA
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.1992.tb00181.x
Subject(s) - liberalism , law and economics , politics , political science , law , political philosophy , sociology , classical liberalism , public reason , public policy , position (finance) , economics , democracy , finance
Bayer accuses me of wrongly claiming that he holds a negative thesis about the role that the liberal emphasis on privacy rights has had on AIDS public health policy. In his reply to my review essay, he denies holding such a thesis and, moreover, makes the stronger claim that his position is sympathetic to liberalism, or at least to some versions of it. Although I appreciate Bayer's efforts to clarify his views about liberalism and a "culture of restraint and responsibility", it is clear to me that our differences are related not to a misunderstanding on my part, but to a fundamental disagreement concerning what liberalism as a political philosophy is, and what public policy implications it entails in the case of AIDS....