Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sudhir Anand, Fabienne Peter
  • Part I. Health equity: 1. The concern for equity in health / Sudhir Anand
  • 2. Why health equity? / Amartya Sen
  • Part II. Health, society and justice: 3. Social causes of social inequalities in health / Michael Marmot
  • 4. Health and inequality, or, Why justice is good for our health / Norman Daniels [and others]
  • 5, Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter
  • Part III. Responsibility for health and health care:
  • 6. Personal and social responsiblity for health / Daniel Wikler
  • 7. Relational conceptions of justice : responsibilities for health outcomes / Thomas W. Pogge
  • 8. Just health care in a pluri-national country / Philippe Van Parijs
  • Part IV. ethical and measurement problems in health evaluation: 9. Disability-adjusted life years : a critical review / Sudhir Anand, Kara Hanson
  • 10. Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritisation of health care resources / Dan W. Brock
  • 11. Deciding whom to help, health-adjusted life years and disabilities / Frances M. Kamm
  • 12. The value of living longer / John Broome
  • Part V. Equity and conflicting perspectives on health evaluation: 13. Health achievement and equity : external and internal perspectives /Amartya Sen
  • 14. Ethics and experience: an anthropological approach to health equity / Arthur Kleinman
  • 15. Equity of the ineffable: cultural and political constraints on ethnomedicine as a health problem in contemporary Tibet / Vicanne Adams.