Workshop Chair: Christine Straehle, University of Ottawa
Location: Off-Site Venue, McGill University
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workshop Summary

Concerns about global health inequalities are increasingly a matter of global political concern. Although much political attention is directed towards specific, often time-sensitive, health concerns, however, little theoretical attention has been devoted to key aspects of these questions, in particular, around when health inequalities are problematic from a moral point of view (and correspondingly, when such inequalities are not morally problematic). Our workshop remedies this lacuna in the theoretical literature, by bringing some of the most important voices in the political philosophy of health together to discuss the central issues that must be dealt with in order to offer a comprehensive view of the place “health” should occupy in theories of global justice.

Workshop Participants (tentative)

• Yukiko ASADA, Dalhousie University
• Garreth BROWN, University of Sheffield
• Ryoa CHUNG, Université de Montréal
• Phillip COLE, University of Wales
• Nicole HASSOUN, Carnegie Mellon University
• Mathew HUNT, Université de Montréal
• Mira JOHRI, Université de Montréal
• Angela KAIDA, Simon Fraser University
• Eszter KOLLAR, John Cabot University
• Ted SCHRECKER, University of Ottawa
• Lisa Eckenwiler, George Mason University