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

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

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Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Subject:
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.
Healthcare Disparities.
Social Justice.
Public Health Practice.
Health Policy.
Equality -- Health aspects.
Health -- Political aspects.
Health -- Social aspects.
Medical policy.
Public health.
United States.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11015764
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Other authors / contributors:Buchbinder, Mara, editor.
Rivkin-Fish, Michele R., editor.
Walker, Rebecca L., editor.
ISBN:9781469630342
1469630346
9781469630359
1469630354
9781469630366
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 narratives"--

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