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Faden, Ruth

Social Justice : The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

Faden, Ruth - Social Justice : The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy, ebook

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Chapter 1: The Job of Justice
1.1 Which Inequalities Matter Most
1.2 Justice and Well-Being
1.3 Justice, Sufficiency, and Systematic Disadvantage
1.4 Foundations of Public Health
1.5 Medical Care and Insurance Markets
1.6 Setting Priorities
1.7 Justice, Democracy, and Social Values
Chapter 2
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Essential Dimensions of Well-Being
2.3 A Moderate Essentialism
2.4 Well-Being and Nonideal Theory
2.5 The Main Alternatives
2.6 Capabilities, Functioning, and Well-Being
2.7 Relativism, Moral Imperialism, and Political Neutrality
2.8 Justice and Basic Human Rights
Chapter 3: Justice, Sufficiency, and Systematic Disadvantage
3.1 Varieties of Egalitarianism
3.2 The Leveling-Down Objection
3.3 The Strict Egalitarian's Pluralist Defense
3.4 Is the Appeal to Equality Unavoidable
3.5 A Sufficiency of Well-Being Approach
3.6 Toward a Unified Theory of Social Determinants and Well-Being
3.7 Densely Woven, Systematic Patterns of Disadvantage
3.8 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Social Justice and Public Health
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Moral Justification for Public Health
4.3 Public Health, the Negative Point of Justice, and Systematic Disadvantage
4.4 Public Health, the Positive Point of Justice, and Health Inequalities
Chapter 5: Medical Care and Insurance Markets
5.1 The Moral Foundations of Markets
5.2 Sources of Market Failure
5.3 Responses to Market Failure: Some Examples from the U.S. Experience
5.4 Making Matters Worse: Employer-Based Insurance in the United States
5.5 Private Markets and Public Safety Nets
Chapter 6: Setting Priorities
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Mimicking Markets
6.3 Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Alternatives
6.4 Systematic Disadvantage
6.5 The Relevance of Childhood, Old Age, and Human Development
6.6 Beyond Separate Spheres of Justice
6.7 Trade-Offs within Health
6.8 Conclusion
Chapter 7: Justice, Democracy, and Social Values
7.1 Lost on the Oregon Trail
7.2 From Substantive Justice
7.3 Mimicking Majorities: Moralizing Preferences and Empiricizing Equity
7.4 Theory, After All?
7.5 DALYs, Deliberation, and Empirical Ethics
Chapter 8: Facts and Theory
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHI005000

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication year
2008
Language
en
Edition
1
Category
Philosophy
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9780199705191

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