Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Patti Tamara Lenard and Christine Straehle
Abstract
This volume focuses on the moral dilemmas posed by health inequalities across borders, and examines to what extent inequalities in health pose problems for those concerned with global justice. The demands of global justice have been debated for some time now, and many have argued that any plausible account of global injustice takes its starting point from accounts of wealth inequalities and an analysis of why such inequalities are unjust. Yet, the causes of the appallingly poor health outcomes in developing nations are complex, as are the difficulties we face in identifying who, if anybody, is ... More
This volume focuses on the moral dilemmas posed by health inequalities across borders, and examines to what extent inequalities in health pose problems for those concerned with global justice. The demands of global justice have been debated for some time now, and many have argued that any plausible account of global injustice takes its starting point from accounts of wealth inequalities and an analysis of why such inequalities are unjust. Yet, the causes of the appallingly poor health outcomes in developing nations are complex, as are the difficulties we face in identifying who, if anybody, is responsible for them and who should take on the responsibility to remedy them. This volume's authors examine the extent to which global inequalities in health can be addressed as the product of global wealth inequalities more generally, or whether inequalities in health pose specific and distinct problems to moral and political philosophy, in particular at the global level.
Keywords:
Health,
health inequalities,
poverty,
global justice,
global injustice,
inequality,
redistribution
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748646920 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2013 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748646920.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Patti Tamara Lenard, editor
Christine Straehle, editor
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