15.12.2025 Online
Health Vulnerabities and Theories of Structural Injustice
Time: Monday, December 15, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm CET
Venue: Online via Zoom
Seminar of the International Working Group „Public Health Ethics“ of the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM) and the German Society for Public Health (DGPH).
This talk develops the concept of structural health vulnerability to explain how social inequalities, embedded in structural and epistemic injustices, generate and sustain health disparities. Drawing on Iris M. Young’s theory of structural injustice and feminist analyses of vulnerability, it rejects essentialist views of “the vulnerable” and highlights the political roots of health risks. Building on recent debates in political philosophy, the lecture explores how power, knowledge, and responsibility intersect in healthcare and public health, calling for justice-oriented, participatory approaches to reducing structural health vulnerabilities. More information can be found on our website.
There will be time for questions and discussion at the end.
Speaker: Prof. Ryoa Chung, PhD (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Moderator: Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Witten/Herdecke University
Zoom link: to receive the Zoomlink please contact max@em.uni-frankfurt.de
No prior registration is necessary.