Global Health Equity & Justice Flashcards
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Names GH Equity & Justice
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L:none
R: O’Neil, John Rawls
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Ethics definition
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Ethics = the study of right action, to examine what is the right thing to do in a given situation.
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Metaethics definition
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Metaethics = understand what “right” means.
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Empirical Ethics definition
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Empirical ethics = study the way people think about ethics, their opinions.
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Applied Ethics definition
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Applied ethics = applying an ethical principle to a situation.
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Normative Ethics definition
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Normative ethics = what the right thing to do is
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R: Equity and justice
O…: 6
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O’Neil: - ethics of ph neglected
- need to look beyond clinical context and boundaries of states and hc systems
- autonomous patient not possible in clinical practice, many measure have to be compulsory to be effective
- John Rawls: locus of justice isn’t the state, it’s the bounded society
- Fail to see that boundaries are porous, health problems travel across boders
- Need to engage as much with political philosophy as we do with medical ethics - need to enforce public health policies
