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Righting Health Policy
Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy
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2022
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In Righting Health Policy, D. Robert MacDougall argues that bioethics needs but does not have adequate tools for justifying law and policy. Bioethics’ tools are mostly theories about what we owe each other. But justifying laws and policies requires more; at a minimum, it requires tools for explaining the legitimacy of actions intended to control or influence others. It consequently requires political, rather than moral, philosophy. After showing how bioethicists have consistently failed to use tools suitable for achieving their political aims, MacDougall develops an interpretation of Kant’s political philosophy. On this account, the legitimacy of health laws does not derive from the morality of the behaviors they require but derives instead from their role in securing our equal freedom from each other. MacDougall uses this Kantian account to show the importance of political philosophy for bioethics. First, he shows how evaluating kidney markets in terms of the legitimacy of prohibiting sales rather than the morality of selling kidneys reverses the widely accepted view that Kantian philosophy supports legally prohibiting markets. Second, MacDougall argues that an account of political authority is necessary for settling longstanding bioethics debates about the legal and even moral standards that should govern informed consent.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8995-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8996-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
236
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
The Political Tasks of Bioethics No access Pages 13 - 34
Bioethics and Its Political Philosophy Problem No access Pages 35 - 62
Bioethicists on Kant and the Legalization of Organ Markets No access Pages 63 - 86
Kantian Moral Theory and the Problem of Political Legitimacy No access Pages 87 - 104
Rights as the Basis for Political Legitimacy No access Pages 105 - 128
State Authority and Morally Justifiable Coercion No access Pages 129 - 160
Kidney Markets and the Limits of Legitimacy No access Pages 161 - 184
Legal Standards of Informed Consent and the Authority of the State No access Pages 185 - 208
