Centring anti-oppressive justice: Re-envisioning dentistry's social contract.

Eleanor B Fleming Carlos S SmithCarlos R Quiñonez

Published in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2023)

Dentistry must embrace an anti-oppression framing of equity and elevate the principle of justice to one of liberation and not just fairness. In doing so, the profession can better understand itself, act more equitably and empower practitioners to advocate for justice in health and healthcare in its fullest sense. Anti-oppressive justice supports health not as merely an obligation but as a human duty.

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