Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Public health, ethics, and equity / edited by Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter, Amartya Sen.
  
•    
• Other Contributors/Collections:Anand, Sudhir, 1946-
  Peter, Fabienne.
  Sen, Amartya, 1933-
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA30 .P84 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 08-29-2006
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Public health--Congresses.
  Medical care--Congresses.
  Medical ethics--Congresses.
  Right to health--Congresses.
  World health--Congresses.
  
• Medical Subjects: Socioeconomic Factors.
  Health Status.
  Public Health--ethics.
  Social Justice--ethics.
  
• Description:viii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"This volume examines the foundations of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and its relation to social justice; health inequalities and responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation and prioritization; and anthropological perspectives on health equity." "This significant volume will be valuable to researchers and teachers in public health, philosophy, public policy, and health economics, and to public-health analysts and policy makers."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0199276366 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  9780199276363 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  9780199276370 (pbk.)
  0199276374 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter
  PART I. HEALTH EQUITY
  The concern for equity in health / 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.