Health Inequalities and Global Justice

by Lenard, Patti Tamara; Straehle, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780748696260
• ISBN10: 0748696261
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-09-13
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of numerous articles in journals including Global Justice: Theory, Practice and Rhetoric, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Policy and Society, Political Studies Review, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Contemporary Political Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Canadian Foreign Policy Journal.

Christine Straehle is Assistant Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is author of journal articles that have been published in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Policy and Society and Contemporary Political Theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: Health Inequality and Global Redistributive Justice
Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle

Part I: A Right to Equal Health?
1. Is there a Human Right to Health?
Adina Preda

2. What's Wrong with Global Health Inequalities?
Daniel M. Hausman

3. Ecological Subjects, 'Ethical Place-making' and Global Health Equity
Lisa Eckenwiler

4. Health Inequalities, Capabilities and Global Justice
Sridhar Venkatapuram

Part II: Who is Responsible for Remedying Global Health Inequality?

5. Re-examining the Ethical Foundations: Behind the Distribution of Global Health
Garrett Wallace Brown

6. Global Health and Responsibility
Gillian Brock

7. Outlining the Global Duties of Justice owed to Women living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Angela Kaida and Patti Tamara Lenard

Part III: Measuring Health and Health Outcomes

8. Measuring Global Health
Kristin Voigt

9. Exploring a Sufficiency View of Health Equity
Yukiko Asada

10. Rating Efforts to Extend Access on Essential Medicines: Increasing Global Health Impact
Nicole Hassoun

Part IV: Borders and Health

11. Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises: Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters
Ryoa Chung and Matthew R. Hunt

12. 'Illegal' Migrants and Access to Public Health: A Human Rights Approach
Phillip Cole

13. Medical Migration between the Human Right to Health and Freedom of Movement
Eszter Kollar

14. Healthcare Migration, Vulnerability and Individual Autonomy: The Case of Malawi
Christine Straehle

Bibliography
Index