Venkatapuram Health Justice

An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3750-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Social factors have a powerful influence on human health andlongevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscuredin public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in healthpolicy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, andchanging individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophicalapproaches to health and social justice, the debates have largelyfocused on rationing problems in health care and on personalresponsibility. However, a range of events over the past twodecades such as the study of modern famines, the global experienceof HIV/AIDS, the international women's health movement, andthe flourishing of social epidemiological research have drawnattention to the robust relationship between health and broadsocial arrangements.
In Health Justice, Sridhar Venkatapuram takes up the problemof identifying what claims individuals have in regard to theirhealth in modern societies and the globalized world. Recognizingthe social bases of health and longevity, Venkatapuram extends the'Capabilities Approach' of Amartya Sen and MarthaNussbaum into the domain of health and health sciences. In sodoing, he formulates an inter-disciplinary argument that draws onthe natural and social sciences as well as debates around socialjustice to argue for every human being's moral entitlement toa capability to be healthy.
An ambitious integration of the health sciences and theCapabilities Approach, Health Justice aims to provide aconcrete ethical grounding for the human right to health, whileadvancing the field of health policy and placing health at thecentre of social justice theory.
With a foreword by Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the WHOCommission on the Social Determinants of Health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venkatapuram, Sridhar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marmot, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi
Foreword ix
Introduction 1
Part I
1 Health as Capability 41
2 Causation and Distribution of Health 73
Part II
3 The Capabilities Approach 113
4 The Capability to be Healthy 143
Part III
5 Alternative Approaches 173
6 Groups and Capabilities 201
7 The Capability to be Healthy and Global Justice 215
Conclusion 233
Notes 239
References 247
Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Sridhar Venkatapuram is Wellcome Trust Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. He has recently been elected a fellow of the RSA and the UK Parliament Office of Science & Technology.