Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach

✍ Scribed by Sridhar Venkatapuram

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication......Page 7
Title page......Page 8
Copyright page......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 Health as Capability......Page 60
Biostatistical theory of health (BST)......Page 63
The baseline and the environment......Page 68
Other environment objections......Page 71
Defence mechanisms as healthy......Page 74
Biological purpose......Page 75
Nordenfelt’s welfare theory of health......Page 77
Empty set of vital goals......Page 80
Standard circumstances......Page 82
Integrating Nordenfelt and Nussbaum......Page 85
Practical implications......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 91
2 Causation and Distribution of Health......Page 95
Rejecting the bio-medical model......Page 96
New epidemiology and capabilities theory......Page 101
Theories of disease causation and distribution......Page 104
The Black Report and Whitehall studies......Page 107
Psychosocial theories......Page 113
Political economy......Page 115
Social capital......Page 117
Life course approach......Page 119
Eco-social epidemiology......Page 120
Development and health......Page 122
Entitlement analysis......Page 126
Famines and epidemiology......Page 131
Malthusian thesis and the biomedical model......Page 133
Conclusion......Page 134
3 The Capabilities Approach......Page 136
Commodities off-target......Page 138
Persistent inequalities......Page 140
Endowments and needs......Page 143
Conversion skills......Page 144
Welfare......Page 146
Capabilities not commodities or welfare......Page 147
Rawls, Sen and Nussbaum......Page 149
Sen’s analytical device, quadrants, vectors......Page 154
Nussbaum’s CHCs......Page 159
Criticisms of the CA......Page 163
Frontier issues......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 167
4 The Capability to be Healthy......Page 172
Ethical and political justification......Page 174
CH as pre-political moral entitlement......Page 176
Health and CA......Page 177
Capabilities and severe disability......Page 179
The capability of being healthy......Page 184
Structure and causal model of CH......Page 185
CH and claims for research......Page 189
CH and social interdependency......Page 190
CH as a ‘cluster-right’......Page 192
Kamm and capabilities......Page 195
Why the CH......Page 197
Objections......Page 198
Conclusion......Page 199
5 Alternative Approaches......Page 201
Health equity principles......Page 202
Health and human rights......Page 207
Health rights......Page 209
Welfare theories and health......Page 213
Resource theories and health......Page 218
Daniels’ health justice......Page 222
Daniels’ theory versus the CH......Page 224
Luck egalitarianism......Page 228
Conclusion......Page 230
6 Groups and Capabilities......Page 233
Ethical individualism......Page 235
Health and collective action problems......Page 238
Aggregation......Page 243
Biology and group rights......Page 245
Conclusion......Page 246
7 The Capability to be Healthy and Global Justice......Page 248
Cosmopolitanism......Page 252
CA and global justice......Page 255
Health and cosmopolitan justice......Page 257
Self-determination and health......Page 259
Normal opportunity range......Page 260
Two problems......Page 262
Kingdom of capabilities......Page 265
Conclusion......Page 266
Conclusion......Page 268
Original arguments......Page 269
Limitations......Page 271
References......Page 275
Index......Page 300