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Health and Social Justice By Jennifer Prah Ruger
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ; THE CURRENT SET OF ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS ; 1. Approaches to Medical and Public Ethics ; AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT- THE HEALTH CAPABILITY PARADIGM ; 2. Health and Human Flourishing ; 3. Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy ; 4. Justice, Capability, and Health Policy ; 5. Grounding the Right to Health ; DOMESTIC HEALTH POLICY APPLICATIONS ; 6. A Health Capability Account of Equal Access ; 7. A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance ; 8. Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach ; DOMESTIC HEALTH REFORM ; 9. Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-making ; CONCLUSION
About the Author
Jennifer Prah Ruger is Associate Professor at Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Law, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previous appointments include Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Speechwriter to the World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, Health Economist in the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector and Satellite Secretariat for the World Health Organization Transition Team, Health and Development Satellite. Professor Ruger has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations nationally and globally.
Reviews
Ruger enhances the reach of her powerful perspective by enlightening investigations of human flourishing ... By producing a book of such richness concerning a major area of human agency and policy, Jennifer Prah Ruger has substantially advanced the reach of public reasoning, not just about health care, but about social justice in general. from the foreword by Amartya K. Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University and Nobel Laureate in Economics Jennifer Prah Ruger has produced a masterpiece - a beautifully written and strikingly bold 'health capability paradigm' for the analysis of problems of health and social justice ... This gem of a book is destined to push forward current debates about health care reform and its theoretical foundations. It will more than contribute to this field of investigation; it will be a defining moment. Tom L. Beauchamp, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University I have no doubt that this book will become a beacon for the debates on health system reform in the United States and around the world. Julio Frenk, Dean and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health [A]n original synthesis ... that illuminates a way forward toward a more rational health policy and health policy process. ... [A] must read for all serious students of health policy. Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, Harvard University [A]n attractive, concrete vision of a health society, strongly grounded in philosophy, economics and public health. Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University Ruger articulates a persuasive case ... for grounding reform in a commitment to human flourishing ... [and] presents us with practical tools for determining what to cover and how to allocate resources at a time when cost-containment must be a constraint on future policy. Health and Social Justice is an important book not just as a guide to current debates, but for understanding how to nav
INTRODUCTION ; THE CURRENT SET OF ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS ; 1. Approaches to Medical and Public Ethics ; AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT- THE HEALTH CAPABILITY PARADIGM ; 2. Health and Human Flourishing ; 3. Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy ; 4. Justice, Capability, and Health Policy ; 5. Grounding the Right to Health ; DOMESTIC HEALTH POLICY APPLICATIONS ; 6. A Health Capability Account of Equal Access ; 7. A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance ; 8. Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach ; DOMESTIC HEALTH REFORM ; 9. Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-making ; CONCLUSION
About the Author
Jennifer Prah Ruger is Associate Professor at Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Law, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Previous appointments include Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Speechwriter to the World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, Health Economist in the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector and Satellite Secretariat for the World Health Organization Transition Team, Health and Development Satellite. Professor Ruger has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform, and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations nationally and globally.
Reviews
Ruger enhances the reach of her powerful perspective by enlightening investigations of human flourishing ... By producing a book of such richness concerning a major area of human agency and policy, Jennifer Prah Ruger has substantially advanced the reach of public reasoning, not just about health care, but about social justice in general. from the foreword by Amartya K. Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University and Nobel Laureate in Economics Jennifer Prah Ruger has produced a masterpiece - a beautifully written and strikingly bold 'health capability paradigm' for the analysis of problems of health and social justice ... This gem of a book is destined to push forward current debates about health care reform and its theoretical foundations. It will more than contribute to this field of investigation; it will be a defining moment. Tom L. Beauchamp, Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University I have no doubt that this book will become a beacon for the debates on health system reform in the United States and around the world. Julio Frenk, Dean and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health [A]n original synthesis ... that illuminates a way forward toward a more rational health policy and health policy process. ... [A] must read for all serious students of health policy. Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, Harvard University [A]n attractive, concrete vision of a health society, strongly grounded in philosophy, economics and public health. Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University Ruger articulates a persuasive case ... for grounding reform in a commitment to human flourishing ... [and] presents us with practical tools for determining what to cover and how to allocate resources at a time when cost-containment must be a constraint on future policy. Health and Social Justice is an important book not just as a guide to current debates, but for understanding how to nav
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