 In the health-care context, the issue of limit-setting is explored in an important paper by Norman Daniels and James Sabin (Daniels and Sabin 1997). Daniels and Sabin argue that for limit-setting decisions in this context to have legitimacy, the decision-making process must satisfy four conditions (see Daniels and Sabin 1997: 322–325; also Ham and Robert 2003: 2):