ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a capabilities approach to justice. It provides an interpretation of what the central human capabilities are, explains their source, and specifies their normative underpinnings. It then considers how this approach helps us to think about the distribution of scarce healthcare resources between age groups, arguing that there is a societal obligation to ensure human capabilities at a minimal level consistent with human dignity. The scope and limits of this obligation can be determined by considering whether doing less still succeeds in bringing everyone up to a floor of human dignity.
