HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Affluenza, Social Capital, Reproductive Rights

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1AA3
• Professor: Geraldine Voros

Document Summary

Stone article - who gets what when and how, how do we share : equity or moral relativity, efficiency or cost effectiveness, security /social capital, liberty / individual vs. collective rights. Professor guyatt - change in universal health care system (efficiency) Cut down cost on radiology (foot fracture) Safe injection sites - should we be putting money elsewhere like cancer research. Canadian society is objective all for one, one for all . Where do collective rights trump individual rights. When should public policy takeover individual right. John stuart mill - as long as your behaviour does not have consequence to others then individual rights are presumed. Individual rights as long as no harm to others. Female circumcision - voted to not be practiced in canada even though considered to be a multicultural country.