Science, Policy & Social Inequity Workshop

Workshop Library & Links

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"Energy and the Mystery of Iniquity," by Jean Robert.  A chapter in The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection, edited by Lee Hoinacki and Carl Mitcham.

"Energy and Equity," by Ivan Illich.

"Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Initiaive #23: The Triangle of Enhancement Medicine, Disabled People, and the Concept of Health: A New Challenge for HTA, Health Research, and Health Policy," by Gregor Wolbring.  Found at: 

http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/download.php/954da463c9a6c633bdafefd1aaf23844

"Public Values and Public Failure: Implications of the 2004-2005 Flu Vaccine Case," by

Mary Kathleen Feeney & Barry Bozeman.

Abstract: Public interest concerns within policy analysis have marginalized the     popularity of economic individualism and the growing reliance on market failure models to analyze public policy issues. The public interest should be the center of policy analytical frameworks. This case study applies a public values framework to the 2004-2005 influenza vaccine shortage to illustrate the potential for infusing public values in analysis of public policy controversies.  The public values framework leads to a quite different, and we think a preferable, focus on policy analysis and forecasting compared to predominant economic thinking, especially market failure criteria. The case of flu vaccine shortage is especially apt inasmuch relatively few of the determinants pertained to economic forces or to market criteria. Public health is a classic instance of public goods, perhaps even more so than defense and national security, because the level of one's threat is in large measure a function of the threat to others.

"ResIST: Researching Inequality Through Science & Technology," a full description of the project.

Workshop Summary from “Science, Technology, and Inequalities: Designing Effective Policies and Programs,” Washington D.C., February 2005.

"100 million children worldwide miss school," Action Aid International.