@article{Asada_Urquhart_Brown_Warner_McNally_Murphy_2020, title={Troutville: Where People Discuss Fairness Issues}, volume={3}, url={https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/223}, DOI={10.7202/1068765ar}, abstractNote={<p><em>Context</em>. Public engagement efforts in health policy have posed many value-laden questions, yet those that appreciate the complexity and diversity of the concept of health equity are rare. We introduce the Fairness Dialogues, a new method for deliberating health equity among the general public. We provide its theoretical underpinning and present its empirical illustration and qualitative assessment. <em>Methods</em>. Primarily informed by the scholarship of deliberation, we designed the Fairness Dialogues, featured by reason-giving and inclusive group deliberation using a hypothetical scenario (the town of Troutville) that presents carefully designed, simple, open-ended cases focusing on a chosen equity and fairness issue. To assess whether the Fairness Dialogues encourages reflective views, we conducted a qualitative investigation by focusing on fairness and unfairness of inequalities in life expectancy. <em>Findings</em>. Our results revealed the complex intuitions that people have and their curiosity, patience, and willingness to scrutinize them in-depth through a small group dialogue. Intuitions shared by our study participants are similar to those presented in the scholarly philosophical literature. <em>Conclusions</em>. The Fairness Dialogues is a promising method to incorporate the public’s views into policy-making involving value judgment and to develop the capacity of the public to discuss value-laden questions in a reflective and inclusive manner.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique}, author={Asada, Yukiko and Urquhart, Robin and Brown, Marion and Warner, Grace and McNally, Mary and Murphy, Andrea}, year={2020}, month={Jul.}, pages={70-82} }