Table of Contents

Introduction
The Current Set of Ethical Frameworks
1: Approaches to Medical and Public Ethics
An Alternative Account- The Health Capability Paradigm
2: Health and Human Flourishing
3: Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy
4: Justice, Capability, and Health Policy
5: Grounding the Right to Health
Domestic Health Policy Applications
6: A Health Capability Account of Equal Access
7: A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance
8: Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach
Domestic Health Reform
9: Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-making
Conclusion

About the Author

Jennifer Prah Ruger's previous appointments include Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Schools of Medicine and Social Work, Speech Writer to the World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, Health Economist in the World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Sector and Satellite Secretariat for the World Health Organization Transition Team, Health and Development Satellite. has authored numerous theoretical and empirical studies on the equity
and efficiency of health system access, financing, resource allocation, policy reform and social determinants of health. These contributions are unified by an overarching interest in equity and
disparities in health and health care, focusing on vulnerable and impoverished populations.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition [A] seminal work...a book that demands attention and determined action'
O Gostin, Bulletin of the World Health Association