Understanding health inequalities and justice :  new conversations across the disciplines / 
edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca L. Walker. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Studies in social medicine .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 /  Global health inequalities and justice /  Health inequalities and relational egalitarianism /  The liberal autonomous subject and the question of health inequalities /  Embodied inequalities : an interdisciplinary conversation on oral health disparities /  Chasing virtue, enforcing virtue : social justice and conceptions of risk in pregnancy /  Justice, respect, and recognition in mental health services : theoretical and testimonial accounts /  Justice, evidence, and interdisciplinary health inequalities research /  Cultural health capital : a sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act /  Racial health disparities and questions of evidence : what went wrong with healthy people /  Health-care justice, health inequalities, and U.S. health system reform /  Paula Braveman --  Jennifer Prah Ruger --  J. Paul Kelleher --  Eva Feder Kittay --  Sarah Horton and Judith C. Barker --  Debra Debruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Joan Liaschenko, and Mary Faith Marshall --  Paul Brodwin --  Nicholas B. King --  Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin --  Carolyn Moxley Rouse --  Carla C. Keirns. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469630373 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical policy--United States.<br/>Public health--United States.<br/>Equality--Health aspects--United States.<br/>Justice--Health aspects--United States.<br/>Health--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Health--Political aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA395  / .U534 2016