Health and Social Justice

This book brings together the latest thinking in social justice and health policy and seeks to integrate a capabilities perspective with the demands of health and economic policies that impact on health

INTRODUCTION ; THE CURRENT SET OF ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS ; 1. Approaches to Medical and Public Ethics ; AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT- THE HEALTH CAPABILITY PARADIGM ; 2. Health and Human Flourishing ; 3. Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy ; 4. Justice, Capability, and Health Policy ; 5. Grounding the Right to Health ; DOMESTIC HEALTH POLICY APPLICATIONS ; 6. A Health Capability Account of Equal Access ; 7. A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance ; 8. Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach ; DOMESTIC HEALTH REFORM ; 9. Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-making ; CONCLUSION