RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The multiple self objection to the prudential lifespan account
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 32
OP 35
DO 10.1136/jme.2008.024380
VO 35
IS 1
A1 M Schefczyk
YR 2009
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/35/1/32.abstract
AB Multiple self approaches purport that to have equal concern about all stages of one’s life is not a requirement of rationality. This poses a challenge to the prudential lifespan account which Norman Daniels advocates in Just health: meeting health needs fairly. Daniels has criticised the multiple self approach in earlier works, most extensively in Am I my parents keeper? In Just health, he only takes up the issue except in one footnote, presumably because he is convinced that his preceding discussions settled the matter. This article argues that Daniels underestimates the force of the multiple self objection to prudential lifespan account.