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Disproportionate Burden
         
          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  Reducing social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: models of care and their impact in resource-
poor settings. 
de Guzman A.
AIDS Care 2001 Oct;13(5):663-75
Abstract
 
  Medicine betrayed: hemophilia patients and HIV in the US.
Keshavjee S, Weiser S, Kleinman A.
Soc Sci Med 2001 Oct;53(8):1081-1094
 Abstract
 
  AIDS and pauperization: principal concepts and empirical evidence.
Bastos FI, Szwarcwald CL
Cad Saude Publica 2000;16(## Suppl 1):65-76,
Abstract
 
The excess burden of breast carcinoma in minority and medically underserved communities:
application, research, and redressing institutional racism.
Shinagawa SM
Cancer 2000 Mar 1;88(5 Suppl):1217-23,
Abstract
Equity      
General Reports Access to Clinical Trials Healthcare Access Viaticals
General Reports

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Am Unequal Activism  for an Unequal Epidemic
Selemogo M.
Developing World Bioeth. 2005 May;5(2):153-168.
 Abstract.

Defining equity in health.
Braveman P, Gruskin S.
J Epidemiol Community Health 2003 Apr;57(4):254-8
 Abstract

 

Equity in Access to Clinical Trials
 
          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Enrollment of african americans onto clinical treatment trials: study design barriers.
 Adams-Campbell LL, Ahaghotu C, Gaskins M, et al
 J Clin Oncol. 2004 Feb 15;22(4):730-4
 Abstract
 
  Commentary: justice and medical research: a global perspective.
Benatar SR.
Bioethics 2001 Aug;15(4):333-40
 Abstract
 
  Selecting subjects for participation in clinical research: one sphere of justice.
Weijer C
J Med Ethics 1999 Feb;25(1):31-6 
Abstract
Equity in Access to Healthcare

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
HIV-AIDS: ethics in healthcare, research, and access to treatments
Hirsch E. 
Med Sci (Paris). 2003 Jun-Jul;19(6-7):753-60
 Abstract

Allocating HIV-Prevention Resources: Balancing Efficiency and Equity  
Kaplan EH , Merson MH
Am J Public Health 2002; 92: 1905-1907.
 Abstract

Commodification of the sacred through intellectual property rights.
Posey DA.   
J Ethnopharmacol 2002 Nov;83(1-2):3-12
 Abstract

Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries:conflicts between
ethical and economic imperatives.
Schuklenk U, Ashcroft RE.
 J Med Philos 2002 Apr;27(2):179-95
 Abstract
 
Stigma, social justice and the rights of the mentally ill: Challenging the status quo
Johnstone MJ.   
Aust N Z J Ment Health Nurs 2001 Dec;10(4):200-9
 Abstract
 
Exploring distributive justice in health care.
Capp S, Savage S, Clarke V.
Aust Health Rev 2001;24(2):40-44
 Abstract
 
Equity - some theory and its policy implications.
Culyer AJ.
Med Ethics 2001 Aug;27(4):275-283
 Abstract
 
Allocating scarce resources in a publicly funded health system: ethical considerations
of a Canadian managed care proposal
Reay T
Nurs Ethics 1999 May;6(3):240-9
Abstract
 
The horizontal equity of health care in New Zealand 
Peacock D, Devlin N, McGee R
Aust N Z J Public Health 1999 Apr;23(2):126-30
Abstract
 
Health care inequalities: hospitalization and socioeconomic position
in Rome. 
Materia E, Spadea T, Rossi L, et al..
Epidemiol Prev 1999 Jul-Sep;23(3):197-206
Abstract
 
Evaluating health service equity at a primary care clinic in Chilimarca, Bolivia. 
Kinman EL
Soc Sci Med 1999 Sep;49(5):663-78
Abstract

 

Viatical Settlements

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Viatical settlements: effects on terminally ill patients.
Badreshia S, Bansal V, Houts PS, Ballentine N
Cancer Pract 2002 Nov-Dec;10(6):293-6
 Abstract

Viatical settlements: ethical perspectives.
Greipp ME.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care 1999 Mar-Apr;16(2):463-5
 Abstract

Viatical settlements: what case managers should know.
Freeman MB, Plant BA.
Case Manager 1999 Sep-Oct;10(5):54-8
 Abstract

  
Essential Medicines Access
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Access to  Essential Medicines A Hobbesian Social Contract Approach
Ashcroft RE. 
Developing World Bioeth. 2005 May;5(2):121-141.
 Abstract
Ethics and Biotechnical Intellectual Property Rights
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  The moral tollbooth: a method that makes use of the patent system to address
 ethical concerns in biotechnology.
Gold ER, Caulfield TA.
 Lancet 2002 Jun 29;359(9325):2268-70
 Abstract		  
Poverty   
Poverty and Healthcare  Poverty and AIDS      

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 Poverty, Globalization, and Healthcare
Nary, G 
Perspective

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View From Below.
Farmer P.  
Developing World Bioeth. 2004 May;4(1):17-4
 Abstract

Providing health care to human beings trapped in the poverty culture
Benson DS
Physician Exec 2000 Mar-Apr;26(2):28-32
Abstract

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