Understanding health inequalities and justice : new conversations across the disciplines / edited by Mara Buchbinder, Michele Rivkin-Fish, and Rebecca L. Walker.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

xiv, 332 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Paula Braveman -- Global health inequalities and justice / Jennifer Prah Ruger -- Health inequalities and relational egalitarianism / J. Paul Kelleher -- The liberal autonomous subject and the question of health inequalities / Eva Feder Kittay -- Embodied inequalities : an interdisciplinary conversation on oral health disparities / Sarah Horton and Judith C. Barker -- Chasing virtue, enforcing virtue : social justice and conceptions of risk in pregnancy / Debra Debruin, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Joan Liaschenko, and Mary Faith Marshall -- Justice, respect, and recognition in mental health services : theoretical and testimonial accounts / Paul Brodwin -- Justice, evidence, and interdisciplinary health inequalities research / Nicholas B. King -- Cultural health capital : a sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act / Janet K. Shim, Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin -- Racial health disparities and questions of evidence : what went wrong with healthy people / Carolyn Moxley Rouse -- Health-care justice, health inequalities, and U.S. health system reform / Carla C. Keirns.