Social justice : the moral foundations of public health and health policy / Madison Powers and Ruth Faden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Madison.

Contributor:

Faden, Ruth R.

Series:

Issues in biomedical ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public health.

Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical policy.

Social justice.

Equality--Health aspects.

Equality.

Discrimination in medical care.

Public Health--ethics.

Social Justice.

Health Service Accessibility.

Quality of Health Care.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health--ethics.

Social Justice.

Health Service Accessibility.

Quality of Health Care.

Physical Description:

xiv, 229 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Job of Justice 3

1.1 Which Inequalities Matter Most? 3

1.2 Justice and Well-Being 6

1.3 Justice, Sufficiency, and Systematic Disadvantage 7

1.4 Foundations of Public Health 9

1.5 Medical Care and Insurance Markets 11

1.6 Setting Priorities 12

1.7 Justice, Democracy, and Social Values 13

Chapter 2 Justice and Well-Being 15

2.2 Essential Dimensions of Well-Being 16

2.3 A Moderate Essentialism 29

2.4 Well-Being and Nonideal Theory 30

2.5 The Main Alternatives 32

2.6 Capabilities, Functioning, and Well-Being 37

2.7 Relativism, Moral Imperialism, and Political Neutrality 41

2.8 Justice and Basic Human Rights 45

Chapter 3 Justice, Sufficiency, and Systematic Disadvantage 50

3.1 Varieties of Egalitarianism 50

3.2 The Leveling-Down Objection 52

3.3 The Strict Egalitarian's Pluralist Defense 53

3.4 Is the Appeal to Equality Unavoidable? 54

3.5 A Sufficiency of Well-Being Approach 57

3.6 Toward a Unified Theory of Social Determinants and Well-Being 64

3.7 Densely Woven, Systematic Patterns of Disadvantage 71

Chapter 4 Social Justice and Public Health 80

4.2 Moral Justification for Public Health 81

4.3 Public Health, the Negative Point of Justice, and Systematic Disadvantage 87

4.4 Public Health, the Positive Point of Justice, and Health Inequalities 95

Chapter 5 Medical Care and Insurance Markets 100

5.1 The Moral Foundations of Markets 100

5.2 Sources of Market Failure 105

5.3 Responses to Market Failure: Some Examples from the U.S. Experience 117

5.4 Making Matters Worse: Employer-Based Insurance in the United States 128

5.5 Private Markets and Public Safety Nets 133

Chapter 6 Setting Priorities 142

6.2 Mimicking Markets 144

6.3 Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Alternatives 150

6.4 Systematic Disadvantage 156

6.5 The Relevance of Childhood, Old Age, and Human Development 158

6.6 Beyond Separate Spheres of Justice 167

6.7 Trade-Offs within Health 170

Chapter 7 Justice, Democracy, and Social Values 178

7.1 Lost on the Oregon Trail 178

7.2 From Substantive Justice to Democratic Procedures 182

7.3 Mimicking Majorities: Moralizing Preferences and Empiricizing Equity 184

7.4 Theory, After All? 187

7.5 DALYs, Deliberation, and Empirical Ethics 188

Chapter 8 Facts and Theory 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and indexes.

ISBN:

0195189264

OCLC:

60603320

Publisher Number:

9780195189261