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The extensively updated and revised third edition of the
bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the
challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients,
and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social
sciences, and the humanities.
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition - Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine (Hardcover, Third Edition, New edition)
Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M.P. King, …
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The extensively updated and revised third edition of the
bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the
challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients,
and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness,
commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases,
and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in
medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics
and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies,
narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of
illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics
the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals
alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care;
experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to
live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader
health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical
students, physicians, and health care providers.
The extensively updated and revised third edition of the
bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the
challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients,
and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness,
commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases,
and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in
medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Volume 1, Ethics
and Cultures of Biomedicine, contains essays, case studies,
narratives, fiction, and poems that focus on the experiences of
illness and of clinician-patient relationships. Among other topics
the contributors examine the roles and training of professionals
alongside the broader cultures of biomedicine; health care;
experiences and decisions regarding death, dying, and struggling to
live; and particular manifestations of injustice in the broader
health system. The Reader is essential reading for all medical
students, physicians, and health care providers.
An examination of the moral principles and institutional
arrangements that will be needed to drive any new health care
reform inititive. Health care reform has been stalled since the
Clinton health care initiative, but the political difficulties
internal to that initiative and the ethical problems that provoked
it -- of cost, coverage, and overall fairness, for example -- have
only gotten worse. This collection examines the moral principles
that must underlie any new reform initiative and the processes of
democratic decision-making essential to successful reform. This
volume provides careful analyses that will allow the reader to
short-circuit the mythmaking, polemics, and distortions that have
too often characterized public discussion of health care reform.
Its aim is to provide the moral foundations and institutional
arrangements needed to drive any new health care initiative and so
to stimulate a reasoned discussion before the next inevitable round
of reform efforts. Foreword by Thomas H. Murray. Contributors:
HowardBrody, Norman Daniels, Theodore Marmor, Tobie H. Olsan, Uwe
E. Reinhardt, Gerd Richter, Rory B. Weiner, Lawrence W. White Wade
L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor in Applied Ethics at the
Rochester Institute of Technology and recipient of the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Prize for Social Science and Public Policy for his book
Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy. Timothy H.
Engstroem is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of
Technology and recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding
Teaching.
Most of us desire to be moral people, but too often we struggle to
translate philosophical concepts about morality and ethics to
everyday life. One way we can bridge this gap is by approaching
ethics as skills that we can develop rather than a set of ideas we
must grasp. Taking this practical approach, and writing especially
for medicine, law, and business students trying to understand
ethics in the real world Larry R. Churchill examines morality in
the context of human experience. His book builds readers'
understanding of ethics from the raw materials of moral life: the
curiosity we feel when confronted with moral differences, the
perplexities of practical life, and the satisfactions of moral
growth. The book orients ethics around the skills that are needed
for sound ethical reflection and deliberation, acknowledging that
ethical issues change as we change, and their concerns extend over
a lifespan. To Churchill, learning and honing these personal and
relational skills is the fundamental work of ethics and the
foundation for judicious use of more theoretical approaches. A
succinct and compassionate guide to ethical living, this book draws
from literature, as well as philosophical and religious writings.
It encompasses both popular and underemphasized concepts, and
demonstrates their centrality to ethics. Exercises and case studies
reinforce the practical skills it teaches. Ethics for Everyone
shows the wide range of skills and human capacities that make the
field of ethics true to human experience. It is a book to be read
and then re-read at life's major junctures.
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also
a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are
patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and
these relationships provide a special window into ethics,
especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book
answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow
relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What
can this teach us about healthcare ethics? This volume presents
detailed descriptions and analyses of 50 interviews with 58
patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician
specialties. The authors argue that the structure, rhythm, and
horizon of routine patient care are ultimately grounded in patient
vulnerability and clinician responsiveness. From the short
interview segments, the longer vignettes and the full patient
stories presented here emerge the neglected dimensions of
healthcare and healthcare ethics. What becomes visible is an ethics
of everyday interdependence, with mutual responsibilities that
follow from this moral symbiosis. Both professional expressions of
healthcare ethics and the field of bioethics need to be informed
and reformed by this distinctive, more patient-centered, turn in
how we understand both patient care as a whole and the ethics of
care more specifically. The final chapters present revised codes of
ethics for health professionals, as well as the implications for
medical and health professions education.
Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of
the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical
technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since
then, bioethics has predominantly focused on respect for autonomy,
beneficence and nonmaleficence, and the zero-sum "lifeboat" ethics
of distributive justice, applying these principles almost
exclusively within the walls of medical institutions. It is now
time for bioethics to take full account of the problems of health
disparities and structural injustice that are made newly urgent by
the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of climate change. This book
shows why and how the field must embrace a broader and more
meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools
and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public
health. Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, and Larry R. Churchill
make the case for a more social understanding and application of
justice, a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics
consulting, a broader and more relevant research agenda, and
greater appreciation of the profound health implications of global
warming.
Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of
the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical
technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since
then, bioethics has predominantly focused on respect for autonomy,
beneficence and nonmaleficence, and the zero-sum "lifeboat" ethics
of distributive justice, applying these principles almost
exclusively within the walls of medical institutions. It is now
time for bioethics to take full account of the problems of health
disparities and structural injustice that are made newly urgent by
the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of climate change. This book
shows why and how the field must embrace a broader and more
meaningful view of justice, principally by incorporating the tools
and insights of the social sciences, epidemiology, and public
health. Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, and Larry R. Churchill
make the case for a more social understanding and application of
justice, a deeper humility in assessing expertise in bioethics
consulting, a broader and more relevant research agenda, and
greater appreciation of the profound health implications of global
warming.
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The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition - Differences and Inequalities (Hardcover, Third Edition, New edition)
Jonathan Oberlander, Mara Buchbinder, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, Nancy M.P. King, …
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R2,556
Discovery Miles 25 560
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The extensively updated and revised third edition of the
bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the
challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients,
and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social
sciences, and the humanities.
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also
a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are
patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and
these relationships provide a special window into ethics,
especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book
answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow
relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What
can this teach us about healthcare ethics? This volume presents
detailed descriptions and analyses of 50 interviews with 58
patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician
specialties. The authors argue that the structure, rhythm, and
horizon of routine patient care are ultimately grounded in patient
vulnerability and clinician responsiveness. From the short
interview segments, the longer vignettes and the full patient
stories presented here emerge the neglected dimensions of
healthcare and healthcare ethics. What becomes visible is an ethics
of everyday interdependence, with mutual responsibilities that
follow from this moral symbiosis. Both professional expressions of
healthcare ethics and the field of bioethics need to be informed
and reformed by this distinctive, more patient-centered, turn in
how we understand both patient care as a whole and the ethics of
care more specifically. The final chapters present revised codes of
ethics for health professionals, as well as the implications for
medical and health professions education.
This book takes the conversation between bioethics and health
policy to a new level. Moving beyond principles and normative
frameworks, bioethicists writing in the volume consider the actual
policy problems faced by health care systems, while policy-makers
reflect on the moral values inherent in both the process and
content of health policy. The result is a vigorous dialogue with
some of the nation's leading experts at the interface of ethics and
health policy. the book provides a history of the values implicit
in U.S. health policy, a discussion of the federal and state roles
in policy making, an ethical examination of the social goals
expressed through various policies, an analysis of the role of
public opinion in the creation of health policy, and an exploration
of the value of the private sector in health policy. In addition,
the authors examine some of the major ethical controversies in
health policy, such as the challenge of balancing ethical concerns
with economic realities, the need to allocate scarce health
resources, the call for heightened accountability, and the impact
of various policies on vulnerable populations. The book concludes
with an examination of the ethical issues in health services
research, including the threats to privacy that arise in such
research. To a greater extent than any previous volume, it
establishes a strong connection between the disciplines of medical
ethics and health policy.
I'm covered - why should I foot the bill for somebody who isn't?
This question, unspoken but simmering at the center of the debate
over universal health care coverage, comes in for a thoughtful
hearing - and, perhaps, gentle corrective - in Larry Churchill's
timely book. Churchill, whose Rationing Health Care in America put
the nation's health care crisis into perspective here does the same
for our crisis of conscience over health care coverage. As Clinton
and Congress spar over the financing and organization of a national
health care system, the true debate, this book reveals, is about
moral and political values, about the meaning and ethics of health
care reform. Churchill begins by cutting through the confused
discussion about rationing health care. Concerns about rationing,
with all the moral and political questions they raise, deflect our
attention from a more important issue, which this book brings into
focus. Arguing that care is already rationed by ability to pay,
Churchill suggests that the proper question is not whether to
ration but how to do so fairly, and that answering requires a clear
sense of the aims of a health care system. In pursuit of this
necessary understanding, Churchill explores values and concepts
such as security and solidarity, self-interest and social affinity,
rights and responsibilities. Drawing on philosophical ideas of
justice and individual responsibility, rendered here with
remarkable clarity, he shows that universal care is morally as well
as economically comprehensible and that a truly inclusive health
care system should be seen as a common civic purpose rather than as
a supply of services to be consumed. Accessible, deeply felt, and
cogently argued, this book should revise the terms of the national
debate over health care reform.
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