Capabilities and the Definition of Health: Comments on Venkatapuram
Sridhar Venkatapuram's Health Justice argues that health is a ‘metacapability’ - specifically, as the metacapability of having the ten ‘central human capabilities’ described by Martha Nussbaum. This cannot be right, as it provides no basis for distinguishing health from education, riches, or lo...
| Published in: | Bioethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Bioethics
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| Review of: | Health justice (Cambridge : Polity, 2011) (Richardson, Henry S.)
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCH Medical ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Lennart Nordenfelt
B Martha Nussbaum B Book review B Amartya Sen B Health B Capabilities B Christopher Boorse |
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| Summary: | Sridhar Venkatapuram's Health Justice argues that health is a ‘metacapability’ - specifically, as the metacapability of having the ten ‘central human capabilities’ described by Martha Nussbaum. This cannot be right, as it provides no basis for distinguishing health from education, riches, or love. An amendment correcting this problem is suggested, namely that health is the involuntary, bodily aspect of the metacapability for the central capabilities. This amendment is defended against the objection that it fails to capture some important aspects of mental health. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "On Health Justice. Some Thoughts and Responses to Critics (2016)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12219 |