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Sridhar Venkatapuram - Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach - 9780745650357 - V9780745650357
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Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach

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Description for Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach Paperback. Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise, in philosophical approaches to health and social justice, the debates have largely focused on rationing problems in health care and on personal responsibility. However, a range of events over the past two decades such as the study of modern famines, the global experience of HIV/AIDS, the international women’s health movement, and the flourishing of social epidemiological research ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745650357
SKU
V9780745650357
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Sridhar Venkatapuram
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.

Reviews for Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
"A wonderful feat of interdisciplinary scholarship." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics "Provides a lucent account of the intersection of health policy and social justice and helps explains why it is unfair to saddle the poor with expectations that they may not be able to meet ... There is an elegance to the writing and an intellectual depth ... Read more

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