Biomedical Ethics readings? [please do my homework.]
Yoo-hoo. I'm new! I'm an undergrad philosopher with a keen interest in bioethics and logic. I'm looking for philosophical readings on public health and closing gaps in access to health - there are many practical resources on this kind of thing in sociology and health fields, but I haven't been able to find giant amounts of philosophy. I'm particularly looking for texts that hold that we don't have a right to access to health care, that the right to health is not a special right, and/or that we shouldn't care about closing the gaps in access to public health. (Reading people who you violently disagree with is good for you, I guess.)
On the off-chance that you aren't specially interested in doing my homework for me, the paper I'm writing is broadly focused on whether or not we should care about unequal access to public health, and if we should care, what public health can do about closing the gaps - since many of the causes of health inequities are caused by (for example) poor housing, education, income disparity, and so forth. Even if access was entirely equitable, inequities would remain in health. So, you know - *should* we care about public health? I suspect many of you are based in the US - do you think public health is important? If not, why not? What about if you leave out concerns rooted in economics and efficiency, does that change the way you think about public health?
On the off-chance that you aren't specially interested in doing my homework for me, the paper I'm writing is broadly focused on whether or not we should care about unequal access to public health, and if we should care, what public health can do about closing the gaps - since many of the causes of health inequities are caused by (for example) poor housing, education, income disparity, and so forth. Even if access was entirely equitable, inequities would remain in health. So, you know - *should* we care about public health? I suspect many of you are based in the US - do you think public health is important? If not, why not? What about if you leave out concerns rooted in economics and efficiency, does that change the way you think about public health?