RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 You cannot have your normal functioning cake and eat it too
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 748
OP 751
DO 10.1136/medethics-2012-100989
VO 39
IS 12
A1 Loi, Michele
YR 2013
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/12/748.abstract
AB Does biomedical enhancement challenge justice in health care? This paper argues that health care justice based on the concept of normal functioning is inadequate if enhancements are widespread. Two different interpretations of normal functioning are distinguished: the “species typical” vs. the “normal cooperator” account, showing that each version of the theory fails to account for certain egalitarian intuitions about help and assistance owed to people with health needs, where enhancements are widespread.