New book: Health Inequalities and Global Justice.

warning! self-promotion.....a really good, new book is now out on global justice and health

Health Inequalities and Global Justice (Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights) [Hardcover]
Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle (eds.)
Aug 2012
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9780748646920
Price: £65.00

Edinburg University Press / Columbia University Press
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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.