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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483758903321

Autore

Pinto Edward Premdas

Titolo

Health justice in India : citizenship, power and health care jurisprudence / / Edward Premdas Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

981-15-8143-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXV, 295 p. 11 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

362.10954

Soggetti

Public health - India

Medical laws and legislation - India

Social justice - India

Medical care - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Citizenship, Pursuit of Health Justice and Health Care Jurisprudence -- Chapter 3 - An Overview of Health Care jurisprudence in India -- Chapter 4 - Health care Jurisprudence and Health Justice: Procedural and Substantive justice dimensions -- Chapter 5 - Health Justice and the dialectics of power: State, Medical Profession and Civil Society -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion: Unbundling Health Justice.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives. Discussing how the exchange of power between the health justice triad, viz., the State (judiciary as the arm of the State), legal and medical professions, and civil society, cumulatively shapes the outcomes of health justice for citizens, it provides insights into India’s juridico-legal processes and of seeking justice in healthcare. It critically assesses civil society’s counter-hegemonic role in bolstering justice in health care and examines the potential of transforming health care jurisprudence into health justice. Repositioning the social right to healthcare as integral to social citizenship and social justice, and opening avenues for inter-professional and interdisciplinary power discourse in public



health policy research, the book is of interest to academics, practitioners, students, researchers, and the wide academic community working in public health care issues broadly. .