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Sridhar Venkatapuram: Health justice: an argument from the capabilities approach

Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011, 270 pp, US $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-7456-5035-7

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  1. A detailed list of the CHCs can be found in Nussbaum [4, pp. 76–78]. In summary, they are: (1) normal lifespan; (2) bodily health; (3) bodily integrity; (4) use of senses, imagination, and thought; (5) emotions; (6) practical reason; (7) affiliation; (8) concern for other species; (9) play; and (10) control over one’s political and material environment.

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Kim, D.T. Sridhar Venkatapuram: Health justice: an argument from the capabilities approach . Theor Med Bioeth 34, 511–515 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-013-9270-4

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