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THE RELEVANT REASONS FOR DISTRIBUTING HEALTH CARE
Author(s) -
Teuber Andreas
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.1981.tb01454.x
Subject(s) - ballot , politics , library science , citation , political science , law , sociology , voting , computer science
It was a particular hobby-horse of Shaw’s to complain about the “market method”of health care distribution. “That any sane nation,”he wrote in the Preface to The Doctor’s Dilemma, “having observed that you could supply a loaf of bread by giving a baker a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.”] But Shaw never gave very much in the way of argument for his opinions. It was the sort of practice which was according to him, “too insane” to require argument. Bernard Williams in his Idea of Equality offers a n argument. The central focus of this paper is on his argument.