Social Justice and Neoliberal Discourse

Social democracy and social policy in neoliberal times

This article considers the path of social policy and democracy in Australia and the latest set of welfare reforms under Labor. The reforms can be seen to mark a reaction to the excesses of neoliberal government on the one hand, but they also represent continuity in neoliberal thought and policy on the other. As we shall see, engrained ideas about individualist wage-earning welfare, that were es...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Social justice and health disparities: an evolving discourse in occupational therapy research and intervention.

The selection of the theme for this special issue of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT)—social justice and health disparities—supports occupational therapy’s growing interest in addressing unjust inequities that limit opportunities for participation in society. Over the past two decades, the occupational therapy literature has examined societal issues that influence occupationa...

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...