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Norman Daniels on the Philosophy of Healthcare

Philosophy Bites

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Rolles's Theory of Health

In the early attempts to extend roles's theory, there were a number of people who thought rolles made a simple mistake and excluded health and health care from the category of primary social goods. My view was that you did job extending his theory with fewer modifications of the theory if you found room for institutions that promoted health within an existing good like opportunity. And so the extension i made of rolls was to say that health is important because it makes a significant contribution to the age of opportunities open to people. We can't have equality opportunity unless we have e quality of health.

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