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Jeremy Waldron

  • Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin

In the 13th chapter of this formidable collection of Ronald Dworkin’s writings on equality, we are asked to consider a problem about health cover. The chapter is entitled ‘Playing God: Genes, Clones and Luck’, and the problem has to do with the availability of health insurance to those who are revealed, by genetic testing, to have a higher than ordinary risk of contracting some disease that may require expensive medical treatment.

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Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School, is the author of Law and Disagreement and God, Locke and Equality.