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Public Health Ethics Advance Access published online on September 10, 2009
Public Health Ethics, doi:10.1093/phe/php024
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org

Benevolence, Justice, Well-Being and the Health Gradient

Daniel M. Hausman*

University of Wisconsin-Madison

* Corresponding author: Herbert A. Simon Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Tel.: 608 263 5178; Fax: 608 265 3701; cell 608 354 6120; E-mail: dhausman{at}wisc.edu.


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The health gradient among those who are by historical standards both remarkably healthy and well-off is of considerable moral importance with respect to benevolence, justice and the theory of welfare. Indeed it may help us to realize that for most people the good life lies in close and intricate social ties with others which can flourish only when inequalities are limited. The health gradient suggests that there is a story to be told in which egalitarian justice, solidarity, health and well-being go hand-in-hand.


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