Social Justice The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy [Paperback]

In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and justice.

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
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