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Author:   Patti Tamara Lenard (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa) ,  Christine Straehle (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa) ,  Yukiko Asada ,  Gillian Brock
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780748696260

ISBN 10:   0748696261
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Health inequality as a concern for global redistributive justice, Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle; Part 1: A right to equal health?; 1. Is there a human right to health?, Adina Preda; 2. What's Wrong with Global Health Inequalities?, Daniel M. Hausman; 3. Ecological Subjects, 'Ethical Place-making', and Global Health Equity, Lisa Eckenwiler; 4. Health inequalities, capabilities, and global justice, Sridhar Venkatapuram; Part 2: Who is responsible for remedying global health inequality?; 5. Reexamining the Ethical Foundations: Behind the Distribution of Global Health, Garrett Wallace Brown; 6. Global Health and Responsibility, Gillian Brock; 7. Outlining the global duties of justice owed to women living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, Angela Kaida and Patti Lenard; Part 3: Measuring heath or health outcomes; 8. Measuring Global Health, Kristin Voigt; 9. Exploring a Sufficiency View of Health Equity, Yukiko Asada; 10. Rating Efforts to Extend Access on Essential Medicines: Increasing Global Health Impact, Nicole Hassoun; Part 4: Borders and health; 11. Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises: Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters, Matthew R. Hunt and Ryoa Chung; 12. 'Illegal' Migrants and Access to Public Health: A Human Rights Approach, Phillip Cole; 13. Medical Migration between the Human Right to Health and Freedom of Movement, Eszter Kollar; 14. Health Care Migration, Vulnerability and Individual Autonomy - The Case of Malawi, Christine Straehle; Bibliography; Index.

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Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of numerous articles in journals including Global Justice: Theory, Practice and Rhetoric, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Policy and Society, Political Studies Review, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Contemporary Political Theory, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. Christine Straehle is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is author of journal articles that have been published in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Policy and Society and Contemporary Political Theory.

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