HU332

Bioethics
Week 10 Study Questions

1. Explain the relation between formal and material principles of justice (lecture 42 and PP
slides).
2. Explain the difference between substantive and procedural theories of justice (613-14,
lecture 42 PP slides).
3. Why does Daniels believe that “health care aimed at protecting fair equality of
opportunity should not be distributed according to ability to pay” (610)?
4. Why does Daniels identify the moral importance of health care in terms of its impact on
opportunity rather than on its impact on happiness (610)?
5. Why does Daniels ultimately appeal to procedural principles of justice to decide
rationing issues (614 and lecture 42 PP slides)?
6. Why does Buchanan reject the concept of a right to a decent minimum of health care
(640)?
7. Explain the difference between the first and second of Buchanan’s arguments for
enforced beneficence (644).
8. How, according to Brock, is the goal of equality in outcomes for rationing different from
the goal of improving the condition of the worse off (662)?
9. What is the “aggregation problem” described by Brock (664)?