Political Science 2225E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Natural And Legal Rights, Distributive Justice
10 Mar 2020
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The relationship between health and wealth (development) The state of health inequalities: big picture issues: The glass half empty and half full. The inequality is influences by intellectual property rights. Approaches to better health outcomes: modernization approach, critical (social) approach, postcolonial approach. Natural rights: humans have natural rights to ideas and society is obliged to enforce that right, alternative view: ideas are building blocks and beyond to society. Distributive justice: fairness requires that inventors should get rewarded for services rendered to society, alternative view: invention does not belong to one person or company. Utilitarianism: incentive to invent and innovate, alternative view: incentives are driven by societal needs and the public should determine it. Nobody should be able to own an idea or design. Patents are used as an instrument to hinder the growth of universal health care. Abolishing patents help eliminate the health gap. By abolishing patents, more people around the world will have fair and equitable access to drugs.
