Reading Seminar "Health and Justice"
In this reading seminar we will read selected literature on health and justice, which includes work on public health ethics and social determinants of health. The selection of texts is a mixture of standard and newer papers and chapters. Anyone interested in expanding knowledge, getting inspiration for own work and building networks in the area of health and justice is invited to join, also for selected meetings only.
Date and time: Thursday, 20-21:30 CET
Feb 10: Preparation (= no meeting, individual preparation)
Feb 17: Goldberg D I (pp 1-15) “Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health”, Springer 2017
Feb 24: Preparation
March 3: Goldberg D II (pp 17-32) “Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health”
Author is present
March 10: Preparation
March 17: Goldberg D III (pp 33-51) “Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health”
Author is present
March 24: Preparation
March 31: Preda A & Voigt K: “The Social Determinants of Health: Why Should We Care?”
Author is present
April 7: Preparation
April 21: Wilson J: “Health inequities” in Dawson A: Public Health Ethics. Cambridge 2011
Author is present
April 28: Preparation
May 12: O’Neill O. Public Health or Clinical Ethics: Thinking beyond Borders. Ethics int aff. 2002 Sep;16(2):35–45.
May 26: Preparation
June 2: Dawson A. Resetting the parameters. Public health as the foundation for public health ethics. In: Dawson A, editor. Public Health Ethics Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2011. (pp. 1–19.)
Author is present
June 9: Preparation
June 16: Fourie C. DISCRIMINATION, EMOTION, AND HEALTH INEQUITIES. The Ethics Forum 2018;13(3):123–49: https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ateliers/2018-v13-n3-ateliers04696/1061222ar/
Author is present
June 30: Preparation
July 7: Venkatapuram S. Health justice: an argument from the capabilities approach. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity; 2011. 270 p. (pp 1-30)
July 14: Preparation
July 21: IAB World Congress of Bioethics in Basel > Meeting in person with those who can join
Summer Break
After the summer the reading seminar will continue with many more texts on health and justice.
Readings will include:
Baylis F, Kenny NP, Sherwin S. A Relational Account of Public Health Ethics. Public Health Ethics. 2008 Nov 1;1(3):196–209.
Beauchamp DE. Public health as social justice. Inquiry. 1976 Mar;13(1):3–14.
Chung R, Hunt MR. Justice and Health Inequalities in Humanitarian Crises: Structured Health Vulnerabilities and Natural Disasters. In: Lenard PT, Straehle C, editors. Health Inequalities and Global Justice [Internet]. Edinburgh University Press; 2012 [cited 2017 Jun 13]. p. 197–212. Available from: https://works.bepress.com/matthew_hunt/31