TY - JOUR T1 - You cannot have your normal functioning cake and eat it too JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 748 LP - 751 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2012-100989 VL - 39 IS - 12 AU - Michele Loi Y1 - 2013/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/12/748.abstract N2 - 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. ER -