Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations across the Disciplines (Studies in Social Medicine) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469630354 ISBN 13: 9781469630359

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Synopsis

The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, this volume illuminates the relationships between justice and health inequalities to enrich debates.

Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice explores three questions: How do scholars approach relations between health inequalities and ideals of justice? When do justice considerations inform solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific health inequalities affect perceptions of injustice? And how can diverse scholarly approaches contribute to better health policy? From addressing patient agency in an inequitable health care environment to examining how scholars of social justice and health care amass evidence, this volume promotes a richer understanding of health and justice and how to achieve both.

The contributors are Judith C. Barker, Paula Braveman, Paul Brodwin, Jami Suki Chang, Debra DeBruin, Leslie A. Dubbin, Sarah Horton, Carla C. Keirns, J. Paul Kelleher, Nicholas B. King, Eva Feder Kittay, Joan Liaschenko, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Mary Faith Marshall, Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Jennifer Prah Ruger, and Janet K. Shim.

About this title

About the Author:

Mara Buchbinder is assistant professor of social medicine and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michele Rivkin-Fish is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rebecca L. Walker is associate professor of social medicine and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Review:

This ambitious and fascinating volume brings new interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of health inequity and justice. Readers will be rewarded with novel theoretical and methodological insights, and may find themselves rethinking core assumptions behind their work.--Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University
With its interdisciplinary nature and strong individual essays, there is no question that this work makes important scholarly contributions to the literature on justice and health.--Nancy M. P. King, Wake Forest School of Medicine and Wake Forest University

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1469630354
• ISBN 13: 9781469630359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Buchbinder Mara, Rivkin-Fish Michele, Walker Rebecca