O lectură rawlsiană a dreptului la sănătate

Abstract

Despite its complexity and its systematic treatment of fundamental rights and their importance in ensuring individuals’ participation in social life, A Theory of Justice, the magnum opus of American philosopher John Rawls does not provide deeper insights into the issue of healthcare rights. Various readings of Rawls’s work from the perspective of healthcare rights are worth noting, perhaps the most important contribution being that of Norman Daniels, who maintains that healthcare rights are a means to ensure fair equality of opportunity, explicitly included by Rawls in the principles of justice that parties in the Original Position choose. The presentation will provide an outline of the theoretical framework whereby one can understand healthcare rights in a just society, and will then focus by some dilemmas stemming from Norman Daniels’s interpretation.