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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist
bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two
chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six parts:
I Foundations of feminist bioethics
II Identity and identifications
III Science, technology and research
IV Health and social care
V Reproduction and making families
VI Widening the scope of feminist bioethics
The volume is essential reading for anyone with an interest in bioethics or feminist philosophy, and will prove
an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers and advanced students.

In this chapter Fourie identifies and systematizes the impairments associated with having privilege, and evaluates their implications for theories of relational equality and distributive justice. Having certain social privileges, for example being a man in a patriarchal society, can also be damaging; in other words, there are "impairments of privilege". Fourie delineates six kinds of impairments–epistemic, evaluative, emotional, health-related, affiliative, and moral. She then goes on to assess the implications of the impairments of privilege for two theories in political philosophy. Relational egalitarianism, she argues, has the theoretical resources to identify and address the problems associated with these impairments, whereas distributive egalitarianism does not. Furthermore, she argues that assessing the impairments of privilege through relational egalitarianism helps to characterize a society of equals: we must address the causes of functional impairments, express respect for the worse off by not normalizing the experiences of the privileged, and minimize competitive positionality.

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Andrew Walton argues that, a Rawlsian property-owning democracy (POD) requires a fraternal ethos and certain forms of social interaction, such as high trade union membership. The basic structure objection could be used to challenge these claims as it indicates that Rawls's principles of justice should only be applied to the basic structure of society, and not, for example, to an ethos. Walton has two responses to the objection: firstly, that it does not apply to his argument, and, secondly, even if it were to apply, the objection itself is unconvincing. In this article I argue however that (1) the basic structure objection does apply as a fraternal ethos is difficult to reconcile with Rawls's understanding of what should be included as part of the basis structure, and (2) although I do not defend the basic structure objection, it is not made explicit in Walton's argument why the objection should be dismissed as unconvincing.

The sufficiency view : a primer / Carina Fourie -- Sufficiency, health and health care justice : the state of the debate / Annette Rid -- Axiological sufficientarianism / Iwao Hirose -- Sufficiency, priority, and aggregation / Robert Huseby -- Some questions (and answers) for sufficientarians / Liam Shields -- Essentially enough : elements of a plausible account of sufficientarianism / David V. Axelsen and Lasse Nielsen -- Intergenerational justice, sufficiency, and health / Axel Gosseries -- Basic human functional capabilities as the currency of sufficientarian distribution in healthcare / Efrat Ram-Tiktin -- Disability, disease, and health sufficiency / Sean Aas and David Wasserman -- Sufficiency of capabilities, social equality, and two-tiered health care systems / Carina Fourie -- Determining a basic minimum of accessible health care : a comparative assessment of the well-being sufficiency approach / Paul T. Menzel -- Just caring : the insufficiency of the sufficiency principle in health care / Leonard M. Fleck -- Defining health care benefit packages : how sufficientarian is current practice? / Dimitra Panteli and Ewout van Ginneken -- Sufficiency, comprehensiveness of healthcare coverage, and cost-sharing arrangements in the realpolitik of health policy / Govind Persad and Harald Schmidt -- Applying the capability approach in health economic evaluations : a sufficient solution / Paul Mark Mitchell, Tracy E. Roberts, Pelham M. Barton, and Joanna Coast

This volume brings together a collection of ten original essays which present new analyses of social and relational equality in philosophy and political theory. The essays analyze the nature of social equality and its relationship with justice and with politics.