The Capability Approach in Conversation HDCA

In episode 2, we discuss the Capability Approach and health justice with Sridhar Venkatapuram.

Sridhar discusses the philosophical implications of differing ways of seeing rights to health justice, and how the Capability Approach can help connect rights & policy. 

Sridhar has worked on health ethics for 30 years. He has won numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including Wellcome Trust Research and Senior Research Fellowships. He has been elected to prestigious professional organizations, commissions, and panels including the RSA, Faculty of Public Health, Human Development and Capability Association, and Lancet-Univ. of Oslo Panel on Global Governance for Health. Sridhar is a fellow of the HDCA.

For more information on Sridhar, and on the application of capabilities work to health justice, you can check Sridhar's book Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach

https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Health+Justice%3A+An+Argument+from+the+Capabilities+Approach-p-9780745650340

On Twitter, follow @Capabilityapp on Facebook, search HDCA 

If you'd like to discuss the podcast, you can mail me at j.simpson3@leeds.ac.uk or via the HDCA.

Music is by Muertito
Produced by Verity watts 

In episode 1, we speak to Ingrid Robeyns. Ingrid has worked extensively on the Capability Approach, and is a former president of the HDCA. 

We discussed a brief history of the CA, and some of the key components of the approach. 

For more information on Ingrid, and as a good starting point for an overview of Capability Approach work, check out Ingrid's book Freedom, Wellbeing & Justice. It's open published, so is free to access;

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0130

You can also read an overview on the Stanford Encylopedia page, last edited by Ingrid and Morten Fibieger Byskov;

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/

On Twitter, follow @Capabilityapp on Facebook, search HDCA 

If you'd like to discuss the podcast, you can mail me at j.simpson3@leeds.ac.uk or via the HDCA.

Music is by Muertito
Produced by Verity watts