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Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy
Madison Powers
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Description for Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy
Paperback. Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 374.
In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health policy is just. In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and justice. How much inequality in health can a just society tolerate. The audience for the book is scholars and students of bioethics and moral and political philosophy, as well as anyone interested in public health and health policy.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
244
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195375138
SKU
V9780195375138
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About Madison Powers
Madison Powers is Director and Science Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University. Ruth Faden is Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics, and Director, Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
Reviews for Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy
Powers and Faden have given us a powerful and lucid theory that gives us the tools to unify our work in such disparate areas as bioethics, public health, global justice, and human rights. All of us who work in this area are in their debt.
John D. Arras, Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia
Most moral theorists think about what principles of justice would govern an ideal world. Such ideal theories do not necessarily guide us well in our non-ideal world. Powers and Faden make a powerful case for moving from ideal to non-ideal theory, and ably show how to do it in the field of justice in health care. This book makes an important advance in making moral theory more empirically responsible.
Elizabeth Anderson, John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Faden and Powers have produced a compelling and important argument regarding what social justice requires of states and the various social institutions they facilitate. One can only hope that their articulation of this very good constitutional idea - that as a very fundamental, constitutional matter states ought to promote social justice and that what that means is that states must provide for human well-being along those six crucial dimensions - will receive a wide readership, not only by public health professionals or the lay public, but also by constitutional lawyers and theorists.
Robin L. West, DePaul Journal of Health Care Law , Frederick J. Haas Chair in Law and Philosophy, Georgetown Law Center
Social Justice is one of the most important books to come out in bioethics, and health policy ethics, in the last decade. It challenges us to think more broadly about what bioethics brings to the table when we evaluate health policies and public health practices. Its combination of rigor and clarity is uncommon.
Peter A. Ubel M.D., Director, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor
In this excellent book, Madison Powers and Ruth Faden set out to define the essential dimensions of well-being that should guide a theory of justice, and then to show how such a theory can be applied to important issues in public health and health policy.
Hastings Center Report
John D. Arras, Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia
Most moral theorists think about what principles of justice would govern an ideal world. Such ideal theories do not necessarily guide us well in our non-ideal world. Powers and Faden make a powerful case for moving from ideal to non-ideal theory, and ably show how to do it in the field of justice in health care. This book makes an important advance in making moral theory more empirically responsible.
Elizabeth Anderson, John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Faden and Powers have produced a compelling and important argument regarding what social justice requires of states and the various social institutions they facilitate. One can only hope that their articulation of this very good constitutional idea - that as a very fundamental, constitutional matter states ought to promote social justice and that what that means is that states must provide for human well-being along those six crucial dimensions - will receive a wide readership, not only by public health professionals or the lay public, but also by constitutional lawyers and theorists.
Robin L. West, DePaul Journal of Health Care Law , Frederick J. Haas Chair in Law and Philosophy, Georgetown Law Center
Social Justice is one of the most important books to come out in bioethics, and health policy ethics, in the last decade. It challenges us to think more broadly about what bioethics brings to the table when we evaluate health policies and public health practices. Its combination of rigor and clarity is uncommon.
Peter A. Ubel M.D., Director, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor
In this excellent book, Madison Powers and Ruth Faden set out to define the essential dimensions of well-being that should guide a theory of justice, and then to show how such a theory can be applied to important issues in public health and health policy.
Hastings Center Report