Responsibility and Healthcare

Ben Davies is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, leading a project on the role of sufficiency in health care ethics and policy.Dr Gabriel De Marco received his PhD in 2018 at Florida State University, with a focus on free action and moral responsibility. After graduating, he joined the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics as a research fellow, expanding his focus to practical issues concerning agency, free action, and responsibility; especially concerning, neurocorrectives, arational influences, and responsibility in the context of health.Professor Neil Levy began academic life as a continental philosopher, but has broaden his interests to cover much of philosophy. He Has worked at applied ethics centres (first the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, in Australia, then the Uehiro Centre) for much of his career. Beyond applied ethics, he has serious research interests in philosophical psychology and epistemology.Professor Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002, where he founded the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in 2003. In August 2022, he moved to Singapore to take up the Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, where he directs the Centre for Biomedical Ethics. He has degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics and visiting professorships at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Melbourne Law School where he leads the Biomedical Ethics Research Group.

• 1: Lok Chan, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Jana Schaich Borg, Vincent Conitzer: Should Responsibility Affect Who Gets a Kidney? 2: Jeanette Kennett: Against Retributivism in Health Care 3: Elizabeth Shaw: Moral Responsibility Scepticism, Epistemic Considerations and Responsibility for Health 4: Nir Eyal: On Prevalence and Prudence 5: Gabriel De Marco: Responsibility, Healthcare, and Harshness 6: Dana Kay Nelkin: Informed Consent and Morally Responsible Agency 7: Neil Levy: Responsibility for ill-health and lifestyle: Drilling down into the details 8: Rekha Nath: Obesity and responsibility for health 9: Rebecca CH Brown: Habitual Health-Related Behaviour and Responsibility 10: Daniel Miller, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nadira Faber, Andreas Kappes: Fighting Vaccination Hesitancy: Improving the Exercise of Responsible Agency 11: Richard Holton, Zoë Fritz: Taking Responsibility for Uncertainty 12: Joshua Parker, Ben Davies: Physician, heal thyself: do doctors have a responsibility to practise self-care? 13: Julian Savulescu, Peter Marber: Progressive Reciprocal Responsibility: A Pre-emptive Framework for Future Pandemics 14: Shlomi Segall: Inequalities in Prospective Life Expectancy: Should Luck Egalitarians Care?

This book deals with the obvious absurdity of giving equal access to healthcare to those who are responsible for their own evitable or preventable resource-devouring diseases. However, the book successfully persuades that such an absurdity is not that obvious.