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What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives
Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center
Madison Powers, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Available online from
Health Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 1053-1060, July/August 2006.
The full text of this version of the working paper is not currently available online.
ABSTRACT:
Justice is so central to the mission of public health that it has been
described as the field’s core value. Our account of justice stresses the
fair disbursement of common advantages and sharing of common burdens. It
captures the twin moral impulses that animate public health: to advance
human well-being by improving health and to do so particularly by
focusing on the needs of the most disadvantaged. This commentary
explores how social justice sheds light on major ongoing controversies
in the field, and it provides examples of the kinds of policies that
public health agencies guided by a robust conception of justice would adopt.
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Lawrence O. Gostin and Madison Powers,
"What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives"
(July 25, 2006).
Georgetown Law.
Georgetown Law Faculty Working Papers.
Paper 3.
http://lsr.nellco.org/georgetown/fwps/papers/3
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