Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations across the Disciplines

351 Pages·2016·2.59 MB·English

by  Mara Buchbinder

Understanding
Health Inequalities
and Justice
Studies in Social Medicine
Allan M. Brandt, Larry R. Churchill, and Jonathan Oberlander, editors
This series publishes books at the intersection of medicine, health, and
society that further our understanding of how medicine and society shape
one another historically, politically, and ethically. The series is grounded in
the convictions that medicine is a social science, that medicine is humanistic
and cultural as well as biological, and that it should be studied as a social,
political, ethical, and economic force.
Understanding
HealtH ineqUalities
and JUstice
New Conversations
across the Disciplines
Edited by Mara Buchbinder,
Michele Rivkin-Fish, and
Rebecca L. Walker
the university of north carolina press
Chapel Hill
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Buchbinder, Mara, editor. | Rivkin-Fish,
Michele R., editor. | Walker, Rebecca L., editor.
Title: Understanding health inequalities and justice : new conversations
across the disciplines / edited by Mara Buchbinder,
Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca L. Walker.
Other titles: Studies in social medicine.
Description: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] |
Series: Studies in social medicine | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016016536 | ISBN 9781469630342 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781469630359 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469630366 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Medical policy—United States. | Public health—
United States. | Equality—Health aspects—United States. | Justice—
Health aspects—United States. | Health—Social aspects—
United States. | Health—Political aspects—United States.
Classification: LCC RA395.A3 U473 2016 | DDC 362.10973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016016536
To researchers and scholars who reach across
disciplines to further health justice
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Rebecca L. Walker, Michele Rivkin-Fish,
and Mara Buchbinder
Part I Interrogating Normative Perspectives
on Health Inequality and Justice
1 Health Difference, Disparity, Inequality, or Inequity—
What Difference Does It Make What We Call It?
An Approach to Conceptualizing and Measuring
Health Inequalities and Health Equity 33
Paula Braveman
2 Global Health Inequalities and Justice 64
Jennifer Prah Ruger
3 Health Inequalities and Relational Egalitarianism 88
J. Paul Kelleher
4 The Liberal Autonomous Subject and the
Question of Health Inequalities 112
Eva Feder Kittay
Part II Disrupting Assumptions and Expanding
Perspectives through Cases
5 Embodied Inequalities: An Interdisciplinary
Conversation on Oral Health Disparities 137
Sarah Horton and Judith C. Barker
6 Chasing Virtue, Enforcing Virtue: Social Justice
and Conceptions of Risk in Pregnancy 160
Debra DeBruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly,
Joan L iaschenko, and Mary Faith Marshall
7 Justice, Respect, and Recognition in Mental Health
Services: Theoretical and Testimonial Accounts 185
Paul Brodwin
Part III Rethinking Evidence and the Making of Policy
8 Justice, Evidence, and Interdisciplinary
Health Inequalities Research 213
Nicholas B. King
9 Cultural Health Capital: A Sociological Intervention into
Patient-Centered Care and the Affordable Care Act 235
Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, and
Leslie A. Dubbin
10 Racial Health Disparities and Questions of Evidence:
What Went Wrong with Healthy People 2010 259
Carolyn Moxley Rouse
11 Health-Care Justice, Health Inequalities,
and U.S. Health System Reform 285
Carla C. Keirns
Contributors 315
Index 323
Figures
3.1 Social Position and Mortality Rate: Two Versions 90
7.1 Respect, Recognition, and Justice 197
8.1 HIV/AIDS Mortality Rate, United States, 1987–2005 221