Annette Rid
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199385263
- eISBN:
- 9780199385270
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385263.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter provides an overview of the existing sufficientarian approaches to health or health care justice, as well as concepts or practices in health policy that seem to be committed to the idea ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the existing sufficientarian approaches to health or health care justice, as well as concepts or practices in health policy that seem to be committed to the idea of ensuring “enough” health or health care. Sufficientarian approaches are those that attribute moral significance to achieving a threshold level of a currency of justice—for example, resources, welfare or capabilities—that is deemed appropriate. Although few scholars have begun specifying the significant elements of a sufficiency view in relation to health and health care, sufficientarian ideas play a role in the work of numerous other authors’ writing on justice and health. The chapter shows that concepts or practices in health policy—notably, the moral right to an adequate level of health services and two-tiered health systems—resonate with sufficientarian ideas, although they are not necessarily linked to the sufficiency view.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the existing sufficientarian approaches to health or health care justice, as well as concepts or practices in health policy that seem to be committed to the idea of ensuring “enough” health or health care. Sufficientarian approaches are those that attribute moral significance to achieving a threshold level of a currency of justice—for example, resources, welfare or capabilities—that is deemed appropriate. Although few scholars have begun specifying the significant elements of a sufficiency view in relation to health and health care, sufficientarian ideas play a role in the work of numerous other authors’ writing on justice and health. The chapter shows that concepts or practices in health policy—notably, the moral right to an adequate level of health services and two-tiered health systems—resonate with sufficientarian ideas, although they are not necessarily linked to the sufficiency view.
Peggy Frankland and Susan Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037726
- eISBN:
- 9781621039402
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037726.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This book provides a window onto the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state. It comprises oral history ...
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This book provides a window onto the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state. It comprises oral history narratives in which women activists share their motivation, struggles, accomplishments, and hard-won wisdom. Additionally, interviews with eight men, all leaders who worked with or against the women, provide more insight into this rich—and also gendered—history. The book sheds light on Louisiana and America’s social and political history, as well as on the national environmental movement in which women often emerged to speak for human rights, decent health care, and environmental protection. By illuminating a crucial period in Louisiana history, the women tell how “environmentalism” emerged within a state already struggling with the dual challenges of adjusting to the civil rights movement and the growing oil boom. The author, an environmental activist herself since 1982, worked with a team of interviewers, especially those trained at Louisiana State University’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. Together they interviewed forty women pioneers of the state environmental movement. The author’s work also was aided by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In this compilation, she allows the women’s voices to provide a clear picture of how their smallest actions impacted their communities, their families, and their way of life. Some experiences were frightening, some were demeaning, and many women were deeply affected by the individual persecution, ridicule, and scorn their activities brought.Less
This book provides a window onto the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state. It comprises oral history narratives in which women activists share their motivation, struggles, accomplishments, and hard-won wisdom. Additionally, interviews with eight men, all leaders who worked with or against the women, provide more insight into this rich—and also gendered—history. The book sheds light on Louisiana and America’s social and political history, as well as on the national environmental movement in which women often emerged to speak for human rights, decent health care, and environmental protection. By illuminating a crucial period in Louisiana history, the women tell how “environmentalism” emerged within a state already struggling with the dual challenges of adjusting to the civil rights movement and the growing oil boom. The author, an environmental activist herself since 1982, worked with a team of interviewers, especially those trained at Louisiana State University’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History. Together they interviewed forty women pioneers of the state environmental movement. The author’s work also was aided by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In this compilation, she allows the women’s voices to provide a clear picture of how their smallest actions impacted their communities, their families, and their way of life. Some experiences were frightening, some were demeaning, and many women were deeply affected by the individual persecution, ridicule, and scorn their activities brought.
