Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
ISBN13: 9780199276363ISBN10: 0199276366
Hardback,
324 pages
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Jan 2005,
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$150.00 (06)Description
This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding 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 social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives.Features
- Incorporates wide-ranging, new perspectives in public-health ethics.
- Includes contributions by eminent scholars from a variety of relevant fields.
- Investigates the normative implications of empirical research on social inequalities in health.
About the Author(s)
Sudhir Anand is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Fabienne Peter is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Amartya Sen, a Nobel Laureate, is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
