{"id":24661,"date":"2025-01-21T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cbme\/?page_id=24661"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:46:35","slug":"global-ethics-lecture-larry-s-temkin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/cbme\/global-ethics-lecture-larry-s-temkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Ethics Lecture \u2013 Prof. Larry S. Temkin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Date:<\/strong> Friday, 30 May 2025<\/span>
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Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Rutgers.\u00a0 He graduated number one from the University of Wisconsin\/Madison, before pursuing graduate studies at Oxford and Princeton.\u00a0 Temkin is the author of Inequality<\/i>, Rethinking the Good:\u00a0 Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning<\/i>, and Being Good in a World of Need<\/i>.\u00a0 Temkin delivered Oxford\u2019s 2017 Uehiro Lectures, and has lectured for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the NIH, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.\u00a0 Temkin\u2019s individualistic approach to inequality has been adopted by the World Health Organization and the Gates Foundation in measuring the Global Burden of Disease.\u00a0 Temkin has received fellowships from Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics, All Souls College, the NIH, the ANU, the National Humanities Center, the Danforth Foundation, Corpus Christi College Oxford, and Princeton\u2019s Center for Human Values, where he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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This talk presents one particular conception of egalitarianism, which I call Equality as<\/i> Comparative Fairness<\/i>, and discusses various important issues regarding the relation between equality, health, and health care.\u00a0 Among the issues discussed are the role that health should play in thinking about equality and vice versa; the importance of giving weight to both equality of wellbeing and equality of opportunity; the relation between equality of opportunity and the \u201cfirst come, first served\u201d principle in the delivery of health care; and the relations between equality, fairness, luck, individual responsibility, and rationing in the context of scarce medical resources.\u00a0 The talk illuminates the appeal of certain egalitarian considerations, as well as the possible relevance and implications of those considerations for health, health policy, and the distribution of health care.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Professor Larry S. Temkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Rutgers, delivered the third Global Ethics Lecture, organised by the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics, on 30 May 2025. Professor Temkin presented one distinct conception of egalitarianism, Equality as Comparative Fairness, and its relationship with health, health policy and the distribution of health care. His lecture was divided into four main areas: (i) Equality as Comparative Fairness, (ii) the importance of health, (iii) the relationship between equality of well-being, equality of opportunity, and the \u201cfirst-come, first-served\u201d principle, and (iv) individual responsibility and the distribution of scarce medical resources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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