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Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.
Van Pelt Library RA427.25 .P825 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Congresses.
- Public health.
- Medical care--Congresses.
- Medical care.
- Medical ethics--Congresses.
- Medical ethics.
- Right to health--Congresses.
- Right to health.
- World health--Congresses.
- World health.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Health Status.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Social Justice--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Health Status.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Social Justice--ethics.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter
- PART I. HEALTH EQUITY
- The concern for equity in health / Sudhir Anand
- Why health equity? / Amartya Sen
- PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE
- Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot
- Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels ... [et al.]
- Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter
- PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
- Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler
- Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge
- Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs
- PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION
- Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review / Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson
- Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock
- Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm
- The value of living longer / John Broome
- PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION
- Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives / Amartya Sen
- Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Arthur Kleinman
- Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Vicanne Adams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199276366
- 9780199276363
- 9780199276370
- 0199276374
- OCLC:
- 57420251
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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