scholarly journals Relational Personhood, Social Justice and the Common Good: Catholic Contributions toward a Public Health Ethics

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Appleby ◽  
N. P. Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Health Ethics ◽  
The Common

Solidarity and the Common Good

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Bruce Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
Philosophy Of Epidemiology ◽  
Health Ethics ◽  
The Common ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter offers an account of individual rights and agency, and it considers both the liberal dimension and the communitarian dimension of public health ethics. It examines the relationship between social justice and social epidemiology and offers a particular interpretation of social justice as being crucially informed by a relational ethics of mutuality and solidarity. It provides a study premised on the hypothesis that relational theorizing and conceptualization developed in ecological epidemiology has its analogue in ethics. The chapter discusses how relational theorizing in both ethics and epidemiology can provide a promising pathway to a critical public health ethics. It considers the philosophy of epidemiology and the constitutive concepts guiding relational or social theorizing in the field.

The Politics of Planning

2012 ◽  
pp. 738-758
Author(s):  
J. Phillip Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

This article examines the political aspect of urban planning. It discusses Robert Beauregard's opinion that planning should not reject modernism entirely or unconditionally embrace postmodernism, and that planners should instead maintain a focus on the city and the built environment as a way of retaining relevancy and coherence, and should maintain modernism's commitment to political reform and to planning's meditative role within the state, labor, and capital. The article suggests that planners should also advocate utopian social justice visions for cities which are not so far-fetched as to be unrealizable so that planning can then attach itself to widespread values such as democracy, the common good, or equality.

Paternalism, Autonomy, and the Common Good

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
James Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

Public health policies are often accused of being paternalistic, or to show the ‘Nanny State’ in action. This chapter argues that complaints about paternalism in public health policy are, for a variety of reasons, much less convincing than is often thought. First, for conceptual reasons, it is difficult to specify what it would be for a policy to be paternalistic. Second, two of the elements that make paternalism problematic at an individual level—interference with liberty and lack of individual consent—are endemic to public policy contexts in general and so cannot be used to support the claim that paternalism in particular is wrong. The chapter concludes that instead of debating whether a given policy is paternalistic, it would be better to ask whether the infringements of liberty it contains are justifiable, without placing any weight on whether or not those infringements of liberty are paternalistic.

Education for the Common Good: A Student Perspective on Including Social Justice in LIS Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davin Helkenberg ◽  
Nicole Schoenberger ◽  
S. A. Vander Kooy ◽  
Amanda Pemberton ◽  
Karim Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

An Overview of Health Disparities in the Context of Public Health Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 257-265
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Health Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Health disparities have increasingly become an important area of examination for public health ethics. This chapter provides an overview of the ethics of health disparities, one of the dedicated sections of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics. It begins with background on health disparities and socioeconomic status, including a brief summary of some of the seminal research on the subject. It then provides an overview of the chapters in this section of the handbook, which address (1) the social determinants of health and the ethics and social justice arguments for reducing health disparities, (2) racial and ethnic health disparities, (3) some conflicts that arise between reducing health disparities and advancing population health, and (4) ethical considerations in the measurement of health inequity.

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