A Shot of Justice
Priority-Setting for Addressing Child Mortality
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9780199490592
Publication date:
02/01/2019
Hardback
272 pages
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ISBN:
9780199490592
Publication date:
02/01/2019
Hardback
272 pages
Ali Mehdi
A Shot of Justice argues that a clear and consistent pattern of preventable child deaths is primarily a problem of justice. It engages with the debate on ‘equalisandum’—what (metric) needs to be equalized across individuals in a just society—in modern theories of justice in the context of trends in child survival and access to its determinants among selected groups in India.
Rights: World Rights
Ali Mehdi
Description
Children have been guaranteed an equal right to life, yet millions of them continue to die due to preventable causes. Their deaths are widely perceived as a biomedical issue, with vaccinations being presented as the ultimate life-saving intervention.
This book argues that a clear and consistent pattern of preventable child deaths is primarily a problem of justice. It engages with the debate on ‘equalisandum’—what (metric) needs to be equalized across individuals in a just society—in modern theories of justice in the context of trends in child survival and access to its determinants among selected groups in India. It argues that Amartya Sen’s multifocal metric of justice—with a central focus on ‘maximal potentials’ or ‘capabilities’—is more plausible than its counterparts since it allows equity considerations to be met without compromising the potentials of the better-off or aggregative concerns.
It concludes that such an approach to justice is relevant for affirmative action policies too, which have long been a source of enormous resentment, especially in India and the United States.
About the Author
Ali Mehdi is a senior fellow and leads the Health Policy Initiative at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.
Ali Mehdi
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
- Need for a Shot of Justice
- Metrics of Justice
- The Prospects of Survival
- The Architecture of Survival
- Which Shot of Justice?
Index
About the Author
Ali Mehdi
Description
Children have been guaranteed an equal right to life, yet millions of them continue to die due to preventable causes. Their deaths are widely perceived as a biomedical issue, with vaccinations being presented as the ultimate life-saving intervention.
This book argues that a clear and consistent pattern of preventable child deaths is primarily a problem of justice. It engages with the debate on ‘equalisandum’—what (metric) needs to be equalized across individuals in a just society—in modern theories of justice in the context of trends in child survival and access to its determinants among selected groups in India. It argues that Amartya Sen’s multifocal metric of justice—with a central focus on ‘maximal potentials’ or ‘capabilities’—is more plausible than its counterparts since it allows equity considerations to be met without compromising the potentials of the better-off or aggregative concerns.
It concludes that such an approach to justice is relevant for affirmative action policies too, which have long been a source of enormous resentment, especially in India and the United States.
About the Author
Ali Mehdi is a senior fellow and leads the Health Policy Initiative at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
- Need for a Shot of Justice
- Metrics of Justice
- The Prospects of Survival
- The Architecture of Survival
- Which Shot of Justice?
Index
About the Author
