Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health PolicyIn 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. |
Contents
Chapter 1 The Job of Justice | 3 |
Chapter 2 Justice and WellBeing | 15 |
Chapter 3 Justice Sufficiency and Systematic Disadvantage | 50 |
Chapter 4 Social Justice and Public Health | 80 |
Chapter 5 Medical Care and Insurance Markets | 100 |
Chapter 6 Setting Priorities | 142 |
Chapter 7 Justice Democracy and Social Values | 178 |
Chapter 8 Facts and Theory | 191 |
References | 197 |
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