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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 © 2016 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Jacket illustration: © istock.com/PM78 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 This page intentionally left blank 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
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