Precision Medicine and Distributive Justice: Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation - Hardcover

Fleck, Leonard M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197647723 ISBN 13: 9780197647721

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice that previous theories of justice cannot address adequately. Fleck argues that what we need is a political conception of health care justice, following Rawls, and a fair and inclusive process of rational democratic deliberation governed by public reason.

While ideally just outcomes are a moral and political impossibility, “wicked” ethical problems can metastasize if rationing decisions are made in ways effectively hidden from those affected by those decisions. As Fleck demonstrates, a fair and inclusive process of democratic deliberation makes these “wicked” problems visible to public reason.

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About the Author

Leonard M. Fleck has been Professor of Philosophy in the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University since 1985. He is the author of Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation and over 160 journal articles and book chapters addressing a broad range of issues in bioethics and health care policy, especially in relation to genetics, health care rationing, health care justice, and the role of democratic deliberation in addressing those issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197647723
• ISBN 13: 9780197647721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432