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Understanding health inequalities and justice : new conversations across the disciplines /

"Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informed analyses of U.S. health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays in this volume show that common public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we s...

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Group Author: Buchbinder, Mara; Rivkin-Fish, Michele R; Walker, Rebecca L
Published: The University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in social medicine
Subjects:
Medical policy > United States
Public Health > United States
Equality > Health aspects > United States
Justice > Health aspects > United States
Health > Social aspects > United States
Health > Political aspects > United States
Summary: "Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informed analyses of U.S. health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays in this volume show that common public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the contributors illuminate the relationships between justice and health inequalities to complicate and enrich debates often dominated by simplistic n
Carrier Form: xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781469630359 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
1469630354 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9781469630342 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1469630346 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: RA395
CLC: R199.712
Call Number: R199.712/U556
Contents: Health difference, disparity, inequality, or inequity? What difference does it make what we call it? : an approach to conceptualizing and measuring health inequalities and health equity / Paula Braveman -- Global health inequalities and justice / Jennifer Prah Ruger -- Health inequalities and relational egalitarianism / J. Paul Kelleher -- The liberal autonomous subject and the question of health inequalities / Eva Feder Kittay -- Embodied inequalities : an interdisciplinary conversation on oral health disparities / Sarah Horton and Judith C. Barker -- Chasing virtue, enforcing virtue : soci

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