Social justice : the moral foundations of public health and health policy /
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| Author / Creator: | Powers, Madison. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Issues in biomedical ethics Issues in biomedical ethics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208777 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 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 Justice and Well-Being; 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 Neutrality2.8 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 Disadvantage4.4 Public Health, the Positive Point of Justice, and Health Inequalities; Chapter 5 Medical Care and Insurance Markets; 5.1 The Moral Foundations of Markets; 5.2 Sources of Market Failure; 5.3 Responses to Market Failure: Some Examples from the U.S. Experience; 5.4 Making Matters Worse: Employer-Based Insurance in the United States; 5.5 Private Markets and Public Safety Nets; Chapter 6 Setting Priorities; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Mimicking Markets; 6.3 Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Alternatives
- 6.4 Systematic Disadvantage6.5 The Relevance of Childhood, Old Age, and Human Development; 6.6 Beyond Separate Spheres of Justice; 6.7 Trade-Offs within Health; 6.8 Conclusion; Chapter 7 Justice, Democracy, and Social Values; 7.1 Lost on the Oregon Trail; 7.2 From Substantive Justice to Democratic Procedures; 7.3 Mimicking Majorities: Moralizing Preferences and Empiricizing Equity; 7.4 Theory, After All?; 7.5 DALYs, Deliberation, and Empirical Ethics; Chapter 8 Facts and Theory; References; Author Index; Subject Index