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    Public health ethics holds a special and significant posi... — Carmelics
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    Public health ethics holds a special and significant position in discussions of global justice and duties to the distant poor

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    • 1.Questions about duties of justice across national borders arise frequently in public health contexts
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    • 2.The global justice challenge in health cannot be separated from the broader global justice challenge in well-being
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    • 1.Rawlsian justice is fundamentally domestic in scope: the basic structure principle applies only within cooperative schemes bounded by coercive institutions.
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    • 2.Global health disparities arise from failed state institutions, not from transnational cooperative schemes that could ground robust duties of justice.
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    • 3.Therefore, public health ethics addresses humanitarian duties of assistance, not justice properly construed, diminishing its claimed special position in global justice discourse.
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    • 1.Health is not lexically prior to other dimensions of well-being; Norman Daniels' species-typical functioning threshold cannot be derived from Rawls without independent argument.
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    • 2.If health collapses into general well-being, public health ethics holds no privileged analytical position over other domains of global distributive justice.
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    As important as humanitarian assistance is in global public health, it cannot even begin to address the central global justice challenge in public health – the stark differences in health between populations living in wealthy countries and populations living in low and some middle-income countries, especially the poorest in these countries. The global justice challenge in health cannot, of course, be separated from the global justice challenge in well-being, generally. And all the debates in jus
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