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Improving how individuals give birth and die in the United States
requires reforming the regulatory, reimbursement, and legal
structures that centralize care in hospitals and prevent the growth
of community-based alternatives. In 1900, most Americans gave birth
and died at home, with minimal medical intervention. By contrast,
most Americans today begin and end their lives in hospitals. The
medicalization we now see is due in large part to federal and state
policies that draw patients away from community-based providers,
such as birth centers and hospice care, and toward the most
intensive and costliest kinds of care. But the evidence suggests
that birthing and dying people receive too much-even
harmful-medical intervention. In The Medicalization of Birth and
Death, political scientist Lauren K. Hall describes how and why
birth and death became medicalized events. While hospitalization
provides certain benefits, she acknowledges, it also creates harms,
limiting patient autonomy, driving up costs, and causing a cascade
of interventions, many with serious side effects. Tracing the
regulatory, legal, and financial policies that centralize care
during birth and death, Hall argues that medicalization reduces
competition, stifles innovation, and prevents individuals from
accessing the most appropriate care during their most vulnerable
moments. She also examines the profound implications of
policy-enforced medicalization on informed consent and shows how
medicalization challenges the healthcare community's most
foundational ethical commitments. Drawing on interviews with
medical and nonmedical healthcare providers, as well as surveys of
patients and their families, Hall provides a broad overview of the
costs, benefits, and origins of medicalized birth and death. The
Medicalization of Birth and Death is required reading for
academics, patients, providers, policymakers, and anyone else
interested in how policy shapes healthcare options and limits
patients and providers during life's most profound moments.
In Family and the Politics of Moderation , Lauren K. Hall argues
that the family is a fulcrum upon which societal values balance.
Hall describes a set of intermediate institutions that hold the
power to alter polarized political and cultural views--churches,
religious institutions, local governments, social organizations,
and importantly, the family. For Hall the family moderates between
broad collectivity and strict individualism. She contends that the
family as an intermediate entity wields the strength to guide
society between extreme viewpoints, be they social, political, or
cultural. Family and the Politics of Moderation thus generates an
imperative to ensure the survival of the family as an integral
pillar of society.
This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of
the thought of contemporary French philosopher, historian of ideas,
and novelist Chantal Delsol. A member of the French Academy of
Moral and Political Sciences, she is well known in France as a
political analyst and cultural diagnostician. This collection is
the first book-length treatment of her thought available in
English, bringing together studies that analyze her work. In
between, essays present her remarkable portrait of human beings
increasingly characteristic of Western societies, as well as her
defense of the human person rightly understood. An exposition of
the virtues of her conception of the family, as well as her
analysis of contemporary "matriarchy," complements those
treatments. The authors highlight her unique mode of cultural
analysis, together with her stout defense of genuine political
life. The volume also includes translations of two chapters of her
fundamental work of philosophical anthropology, Qu'est-ce que
l'homme?, appearing here for the first time in English. A
thoughtful examination of Delsol's work, this book provides new
resources to those studying this French philosopher and author.
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