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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Current Set of Ethical Frameworks | |
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| Approaches to Medical and Public Health Ethics | |
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| Welfare economic and utilitarian approaches | |
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| Communitarianism and liberal communitarianism | |
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| Egalitarian theories: equal opportunity and equal welfare | |
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| Libertarian and market-based approaches | |
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| Deliberative democratic procedures | |
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| Summary of problems with the current set of frameworks | |
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| An Alternative Account-The Health Capability Paradigm | |
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| Health and Human nourishing | |
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| Aristotle's theory | |
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| Human flourishing | |
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| Appropriate ends of political activity | |
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| Enabling functioning as a measure of political arrangements | |
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| Other ends for political action | |
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| Defining flourishing | |
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| The capability approach | |
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| Capability sets | |
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| Heterogeneity | |
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| Measures of well-being | |
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| Freedom: opportunity and process | |
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| Selection and valuation | |
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| Basic capabilities | |
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| An underspecified theory | |
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| Capability and health policy | |
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| Pluralism, Incompletely Theorized Agreements, and Public Policy | |
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| Social choice theory, collective rationality, and Arrow's impossibility result | |
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| Problems in social choice | |
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| Arrow's impossibility theorem | |
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| Incompletely theorized agreements | |
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| Incompletely specified agreements | |
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| Incompletely specified and generalized agreements | |
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| Incompletely theorized agreements on particular outcomes | |
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| Incompletely theorized agreements and public policy | |
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| Pluralism, ambiguity, and incompletely theorized agreements | |
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| Incompletely theorized agreements and health capability | |
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| Health capability set: central and non-central health capabilities | |
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| Justice, Capability, and Health Policy | |
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| Trans-positionality: a global view of health | |
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| Health capabilities: health functionings, health needs, and health agency | |
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| Health and disease | |
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| Equality, sufficiency, and priority | |
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| A hybrid account: measuring inequality in health policy | |
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| Attainment and shortfall equality | |
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| Efficiency and health policy | |
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| Ethics of the social determinants of health | |
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| Limitations and objections | |
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| Capability, not opportunity or utility | |
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| Other critiques and objections | |
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| Principles of the health capability paradigm | |
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| Grounding the Right to Health | |
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| Scope and content of a right to health | |
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| Duties and obligations in domestic and international policy and law: ethical commitments and public moral norms | |
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| Positive and negative rights: a constitutional right to medical self-defence | |
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| Domestic Health Policy Applications | |
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| A Health Capability Account of Equal Access | |
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| Rethinking equal access: agency, quality, and norms | |
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| Defining equal access and a right to health care | |
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| Equal opportunity and equal resources | |
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| Rethinking equal access: a health capability perspective | |
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| Justification for high-quality care | |
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| Health agency | |
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| Health norms | |
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| High-quality care and a two-tiered system | |
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| Responsibility and health: voluntary risk compared with involuntary risk | |
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| Paternalism, libertarian paternalism, and free will | |
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| A Health Capability Account of Equitable and Efficient Health Financing and Insurance | |
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| Theory of demand for health insurance | |
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| Behavioural economics and prospect theory | |
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| Medical ethics and equal access to health care | |
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| Welfare economics and the capability approach | |
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| Vulnerability and insecurity | |
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| Moral foundations of health insurance | |
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| Gains in well-being from risk pooling and health insurance | |
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| Empirical evidence on the equity of health financing models | |
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| Market failures, public goods, and the role of the public sector | |
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| Allocating Resources: A Joint Scientific and Deliberative Approach | |
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| Reasoned consensus through scientific and deliberative processes | |
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| Frameworks for combining technical and ethical rationality for collective choice | |
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| Allocations within the broader social budget | |
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| Allocating within the health policy budget: benefits package: types of goods and services guaranteed | |
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| An evidence-based approach: medical appropriateness and clinical practice guidelines | |
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| Medical futility and setting limits | |
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| Universal benefits package | |
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| Hard cases: the �bottomless pit objection' and 'reasonable accommodation' | |
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| Joint clinical and economic solutions: incorporating efficiency | |
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| Resource allocation and age: reaching the highest average life expectancy | |
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| Domestic Health Reform | |
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| Political and Moral Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Health Policy Decision-Making | |
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| Public moral norms and domestic health reforms | |
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| Norms and values in the public's assessment of policy | |
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| Alternative frameworks: political conceptions and political processes | |
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| Case study: the Clinton Administration and failed health reform | |
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| A model of American health care reform and incomplete theorization | |
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| Agreement on universal health care coverage | |
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| Multiple high-level theories for universal coverage | |
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| Strategies for attaining universal coverage | |
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| A wedge theory of health care reform | |
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| Internalization and agreement on moral values | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |