The idea of solidarity in public health ethics
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https://doi.org/10.1344/rbd2017.40.19161Keywords:
solidarity, justice, public health ethics, health inequalities, equity in healthAbstract
Traditionally, solidarity has gone unnoticed in public health ethics. However, some authors are currently demanding the need to take into account solidarity as a guiding principle. Dawson and Jennings are one of those authors, but their concept of solidarity has at least three contradictions: in it, the descriptive with the normative are confused, as the motivational role with the justifier role of an action, and also the place which solidarity must occupy in a theory of justice in health. We need to resolve these contradictions to properly conceptualize the idea of solidarity in public health ethics if we want that it to have a relevant role and no longer a purely testimonial value.
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