Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

 

Questions for Beauchamp and Steinbock's
New Ethics for the Public's Health

"Public Health As Social Justice"
by Dan E. Beauchamp
(pp 101-109)

 

Study Questions

  1. What do you think is the main point of Beauchamp’s first paragraph on p.101?
  2. What is Beauchamp’s definition of justice on the top of p.102?
  3. What do you understand Beauchamp’s concept of market justice to be (bottom of 102 & top of 103)?
  4. What do you understand Beauchamp’s concept of social justice to be (p.105)?

 

Discussion Questions

  1. a. See the first full paragraph on p.103. What do you understand the main point of that paragraph to be?
    b. Do you agree with it or not? Please explain.
  2. a. What do you consider the main point of Beauchamp’s article to be?
    b. Do you agree with it, or not? Please explain.