The concepts of vulnerability and relational equality have been attracting growing interest in recent years. Human vulnerability is considered by a number of moral and political philosophers and legal theorists as central to rethinking the conception of the person, the subject of the law, and thus the obligations that institutions have towards their citizens.1 For many, vulnerability represents a novel perspective from which to reflect on a variety of problems in moral and political philosophy, such as the nature of autonomy,2 and different fields of bioethics, research ethics, and health ethics.3 On the other hand, the concept of equality, hitherto most often defined as a matter of distribution of certain goods, has been reframed as primarily concerning the quality of social relations.4 Philosophers working in this new egalitarian vein have explored the nature of relational equality and egalitarian relationships, and their implications in all domains of social life.