title: A Republican Egalitarian Approach to Bioethics: The Case of the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in Israel.
abstract: This article argues that current, mainstream, liberal approaches to the right to health and to bioethics are not adequately aware of the structural and political character of health and illness. We propose a radical egalitarian definition of the right to health as the basis for the discussion of a republican egalitarian perspective on bioethics that redefines autonomy and stresses the importance of equality, political participation, and the common good. The violations of the right to health in unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel are analyzed to exemplify the possibilities opened by the republican egalitarian approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel dfilc@bgu.ac.il.
authors.forename: Dani
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Filc
authors.affiliation: Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Nadav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Davidovich
authors.affiliation: Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Nora
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D028701:Patient Rights; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: Bedouins; bioethics; inequality; republicanism; right to health