TY - JOUR T1 - Responsibility in healthcare across time and agents JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 636 LP - 644 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105382 VL - 45 IS - 10 AU - Rebecca C H Brown AU - Julian Savulescu Y1 - 2019/10/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/45/10/636.abstract N2 - It is unclear whether someone’s responsibility for developing a disease or maintaining his or her health should affect what healthcare he or she receives. While this dispute continues, we suggest that, if responsibility is to play a role in healthcare, the concept must be rethought in order to reflect the sense in which many health-related behaviours occur repeatedly over time and are the product of more than one agent. Most philosophical accounts of responsibility are synchronic and individualistic; we indicate here what paying more attention to the diachronic and dyadic aspects of responsibility might involve and what implications this could have for assessments of responsibility for health-related behaviour. ER -