Social justice [[electronic resource] ] : the moral foundations of public health and health policy / / Madison Powers and Ruth Faden

• Autore: Powers Madison
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Moral and ethical aspects; Medical policy - Moral and ethical aspects; Social justice; Equality - Health aspects
• Altri autori: FadenRuth R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and justice. How much inequality in health can a just society tolerate. The audie
• Titolo autorizzato: Social justice
• ISBN: 0-19-773168-6; 0-19-988844-2; 1-281-52942-7; 0-19-970519-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780757103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Issues in biomedical ethics.