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Title:

Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 316 p. : ill.

Subject:

Socioeconomic Factors
Health Status
Public Health--ethics.
Social Justice--ethics.
Public Health.--Congresses.
Medical care.--Congresses.
Medical ethics.--Congresses.
Right to health care--Congresses.
World health.--Congresses.
Global Health Equity Initiative

Other Authors:

Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
Peter, Fabienne.
Sen, Amartya Kumar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION -- Vicanne Adams. Fabienne Peter -- PART I. HEALTH EQUITY -- Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Sudhir Anand -- Why health equity? / Amartya Sen -- PART II. HEALTH, SOCIETY, AND JUSTICE -- Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot -- Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels ... [et al.] -- Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter -- PART III. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE -- Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler -- Relational conceptions of justice: responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge -- Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs -- PART IV. ETHICAL AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS IN HEALTH EVALUATION -- Disability-adjusted life years: a critical review / Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson -- Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock -- Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm -- The value of living longer / John Broome -- PART V. EQUITY AND CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EVALUATION -- Health achievement and equity: external and internal perspectives / Amartya Sen -- Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Arthur Kleinman -- Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Vicanne Adams.

ISBN:

9780199276363 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0199276366 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57420251

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)