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Understanding health inequalities and justice : new conversations across the disciplines / edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca L. Walker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469630373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA395 .U534 2016
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Contents:
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 : social justice and conceptions of risk in pregnancy / Debra Debruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Joan Liaschenko, and Mary Faith Marshall -- Justice, respect, and recognition in mental health services : theoretical and testimonial accounts / Paul Brodwin -- Justice, evidence, and interdisciplinary health inequalities research / Nicholas B. King -- Cultural health capital : a sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act / Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin -- Racial health disparities and questions of evidence : what went wrong with healthy people / Carolyn Moxley Rouse -- Health-care justice, health inequalities, and U.S. health system reform / Carla C. Keirns.
Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 : social justice and conceptions of risk in pregnancy / Debra Debruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Joan Liaschenko, and Mary Faith Marshall -- Justice, respect, and recognition in mental health services : theoretical and testimonial accounts / Paul Brodwin -- Justice, evidence, and interdisciplinary health inequalities research / Nicholas B. King -- Cultural health capital : a sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act / Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin -- Racial health disparities and questions of evidence : what went wrong with healthy people / Carolyn Moxley Rouse -- Health-care justice, health inequalities, and U.S. health system reform / Carla C. Keirns.

"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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