Health Justice in India

This book presents important fields of research in public healthcare in India from an interdisciplinary and health systems perspectives. Discussing how the exchange of power between the health justice triad, viz., the State (judiciary as the arm of the State), legal and medical professions, and civil society, cumulatively shapes the outcomes of health justice for citizens, it provides insights into India’s juridico-legal processes and of seeking justice in healthcare. It critically assesses civil society’s counter-hegemonic role in bolstering  justice in health care and examines the potential of transforming health care jurisprudence into health justice. Repositioning the social right to healthcare as integral to social citizenship and social justice, and opening avenues for inter-professional and interdisciplinary power discourse in public health policy research, the book is of interest to academics, practitioners, students, researchers, and the wide academic communityworking in public health care issues broadly.  

Edward Premdas Pinto is a human rights advocate and public health pracademic (practitioner–scholar) and has been actively involved in processes of social justice of the marginalized communities for the last 25 years. His academic career encompasses multi-disciplinary scholarship from eminent institutions including Philosophy (Karnatak University, Dharwad),  Social Sciences (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai),  Bachelors and Masters in  Law (Karnataka Law University), PG Diploma in Human Rights Law (National Law School of India University), and a doctorate in public health and law (Jawahral Nehru University, Delhi). The domains of his scholarly contributions and teaching include health care jurisprudence, politics of health, health and human rights, and public health law, ethics and rights. His praxis of health justice continues through his active engagement with several international and national civil society networks and grassroots people’s collectives spearheading the processes of justice, dignity and wellbeing for the most marginalised. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Public Health and Law in Azim Premji University, Bengaluru (India).