Reading list


As a result of frequent requests, I am putting up a recommended reading list on the topic of Health & Social Justice.  It is in progress, and I will add journal articles soon.  If you have any suggestions please do get in touch. 

Suggested reading list    Health & Social Justice   
For students of philosophy, ethics, health equity, bioethics, global health, global justice, et cetera.

These are all books.  An article bibliography will come soon.
ASADA, Y. 2007. Health inequality : morality and measurement, Toronto ; London, University of Toronto Press.
BARTLEY, M. 2004. Health inequality : an introduction to theories, concepts, and methods, Cambridge, UK, Polity.
BENATAR, S. R. & BROCK, G. 2011. Global health and global health ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH 2008. Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva: World Health Organization.
DANIELS, N. 2008. Just health : meeting health needs fairly, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press.
EVANS, T., WHITEHEAD, M., DIDERICHSEN, F., BHUIYA, A. & WIRTH, M. (eds.) 2001. Challenging inequities in health : from ethics to action, Oxford [England] ; New York: Oxford University Press.
KAMM, F.-M. 1993. Morality, Mortality Volume I: Death and Whom to Save from It, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
KAMM, F.-M. 1996. Morality, Mortality Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
MARMOT, M. G. & WILKINSON, R. G. 1999. Social determinants of health, Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press.
MOONEY, G. H. 2009. Challenging health economics, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
MURRAY, C. J. L., SALOMON, J. A., MATHERS, C. D. & LOPEZ, A. D. (eds.) 2002. Summary measures of population health : concepts, ethics, measurement and applications, Geneva: World Health Organization.
NUFFIELD COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS 2007. Public health: ethical issues. LONDON: Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
POWERS, M. & FADEN, R. R. 2008. Social justice : the moral foundations of public health and health policy, New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press.
RUGER, J. P. 2010. Health and social justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
SEGALL, S. 2009. Health, luck, and justice, Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Princeton University Press.
SEN, A. 1992. Inequality Reexamined, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
SEN, A. 1999. Development as Freedom, New York, Knopf.
TEMKIN, L. S. 1993. Inequality, New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press.
TILLY, C. 1999. Durable inequality, Berkeley, University of California Press.
VENKATAPURAM, S. 2011. Health Justice. An Argument from the Capabilities Approach, Cambridge, Polity Press.
WILKINSON, R. G. & PICKETT, K. 2009. The spirit level : why more equal societies almost always do better, London, Allen Lane.