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Distributive Justice In Health Care Ethics

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Distributive justice is a recently used theory used by the political and ethical decision maker’s philosophers. According to the Samuel Fleischacker 's on his book “A Short History of Distributive Justice” he have mention that distributive justices is a product of 18th-century Enlightenment thought, and particularly of the claims of the radical French revolutionary. This idea was originated from the great Greek Philosopher Aristotle. However in this led the 20th century philosopher like Rawl 's, Nozick and others a foundation for debate on this issue.
1.1 Justices
Justices is the quality of social institution. Justice is often regarded as being synonymous with fairness and can be summarized as the moral obligation to act on the basis of fair adjudication between competing claims. In health care ethics I have found it useful to subdivide obligations of justice into three categories: fair distribution of scarce resources (distributive justice), respect for people 's rights (rights based justice) and respect for morally acceptable laws (legal justice) (Gillon, 1994). The four key aspects of justices will be discussed on this essay.
1.2 Distributive justices
Distributive justices commonly defined as the fair distribution of resources and all other needs among the society they belong in. Distributive justice concerns the equitable distribution of scarce resources among all socioeconomic groups and population sectors (DAVID LEMBERG, 2011) . In other words the distributive

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