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    Ideal for a full semester course, Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change, Second Edition—available in June 2022—explores the historical, structural, and legal underpinnings of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and ableist inequities in health, and provides a framework for students to consider how and why health inequity is tied to the ways that laws are structured and enforced. 

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    SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
    Foreword by Angela Harris and Georges C. Benjamin
    Part I Context and Background
    Ch 1 Introductory Frameworks, Definitions and Theories for Health Justice [view sample chapter]
    Ch 2 Lessons from U.S. Social Movements for Health Justice
    Part II Aspects of the Legal System that Undermine Health Justice
    Ch 3 The Roles of the Three Branches of Government in Health Law and Policy
    Ch 4 Health-Harming Legal Doctrines
    Ch 5 International Human Rights, Health, and the Failure of United States Leadership
    Ch 6 Discrimination, Implicit Bias, and the Limits of the Law
    Part III Structural Inequity and Health Injustice
    Ch 7 Socioeconomic Status, Unmet Social Needs and Health
    Ch 8 Place-Based Inequities
    Ch 9 The Carceral State
    Part IV Historically Marginalized Populations and Health Injustice
    Ch 10 Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latinx People (authored by Prof. Ruqaiijah Yearby)
    Ch 11 Immigrants
    Ch 12 Women
    Ch 13 LGBTQ+ People (co-authored by Prof. Heather McCabe)
    Ch 14 People With Disabilities (authored by Prof. Elizabeth Pendo)
    Part V Striving for Health Justice: Structural and Policy Change
    Ch 15 Existing Efforts to Achieve Health Justice
    Ch 16 Law, Policy and Structural Change: New Directions for Health Justice