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Works in the Works: What Justifies a Health Law or Policy?
September 24 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
The Humanities Department in its Works in the Works series has the following presentation:
Speaker: Prof. Robert MacDougall, Social Science Department
Title: What Justifies a Health Law or Policy? Two Views
Abstract: What justifies a health law or policy? What makes it good rather than bad, right rather than wrong? One kind of answer to this question refers to our moral duties: a law or policy is good or right if it enforces or incentivizes us to fulfill our moral duties. But I argue that this common view is mistaken. I give four arguments against this view and develop a very basic Kantian alternative to it. I argue that rights—rather than moral duties—should be considered as the normative basis for all law and policy, including laws and policies relating to human health. I illustrate the differences between the two approaches by discussing laws governing physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The major arguments and examples are taken from my recent book, Righting Health Policy (Lexington Books, 2021).
Where: In person, Humanities department, Room L631 AND LIVE online via Zoom:
Zoom Invite:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85741158368?pwd=lKdsC11bcsyumH2m46Zri4FmG674Rm.1
Meeting ID: 857 4115 8368
Passcode: 126865
Audience arrival time: 12:45-1 pm.
Presentation start time: 1 pm
All are welcome!