Table of Contents:
  • Are oral health disparities merely unfortunate or also unfair?: an introduction to the book / Jos V.M. Welie
  • Oral health disparities: health care and resource allocation in the U.S. / Raul Garcia
  • Defining oral health / Mary McNally
  • Social responsibility and oral health disparities: a constructivist approach / Shafik Dharamsi
  • Just dentistry and the margins of society / Gerald Winslow
  • Overcoming isolationism: moral competencies, virtues and the importance of connectedness / Jos VM Welie, James Rule
  • The preferential option for the poor: a social justice perspective on oral health care / Jos V.M. Welie and James T. Rule
  • The preferential option for the poor: a social justice perspective on oral health / Jos V.M. Welie
  • Distributive justice / David Chambers
  • Care for the Native American patients / Kimberly McFarland
  • The changing face of Turkey's dental profession / Sefik Görkey
  • Access to oral health services based on recent Finnish laws / Sinikka Salo & Matti Pöyry
  • Sweden's dental insurance system for the elderly, unwell and disabled people in Sweden: ethical implications / Gunilla Nordenram
  • Oral health and social justice: oral health status, financing and opportunities for leadership / Linda Niessen
  • Justice, moral competencies, and the role of dental schools / James Rule, Jos .V.M Welie
  • Service-learning / Michelle Henshaw
  • Oral health disparities: a proposal for educational change / Pamela Zarkowski.