Understanding health inequalities and justice : new conversations across the disciplines / edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca L. Walker.

Publisher's description: 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...

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Other Authors: Buchbinder, Mara (Editor), Rivkin-Fish, Michele R. (Editor), Walker, Rebecca L. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Studies in social medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Paula Braveman
  • Global health inequalities and justice / Jennifer Prah Ruger
  • Health inequalities and relational egalitarianism / J. Paul Kelleher
  • The liberal autonomous subject and the question of health inequalities / Eva Feder Kittay
  • Embodied inequalities : an interdisciplinary conversation on oral health disparities / Sarah Horton, Judith C. Barker
  • Chasing virtue, enforcing virtue : social justice and conceptions of risk in pregnancy / Debra Debruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Joan Liaschenko, Mary Faith Marshall
  • Justice, respect, and recognition in mental health services : theoretical and testimonial accounts / Paul Brodwin
  • Justice, evidence, and interdisciplinary health inequalities research / Nicholas B. King
  • Cultural health capital : a sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act / Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, Leslie A. Dubbin
  • Racial health disparities and questions of evidence : what went wrong with healthy people / Carolyn Moxley Rouse
  • Health-care justice, health inequalities, and U.S. health system reform / Carla C. Keirns.