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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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R2,556
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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.
Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for
informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve
original essays inthis volume show that common public debates
routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and
political questions about how we shouldaddress ideals of justice
and equality in health care. Integrating perspectivesfrom the
humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the
contributorsilluminate the relationships between justice and health
inequalitiesto complicate and enrich debates often dominated by
simplistic narratives. Understanding Health Inequalities and
Justice grounds key conceptualdiscussions in timely case studies
and policy analyses that explore threeoverarching questions: first,
how do scholars approach relations betweenhealth inequalities and
ideals of justice; second, when do justice considerationsinform
solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific
healthinequalities affect perceptions of injustice; and third, how
can diverse scholarlyapproaches contribute to better health policy?
From addressing patientagency in an inequitable health care
environment to examining how scholarsof social justice and health
care amass evidence, this volume combines theskills and
sensibilities of diverse scholars to promote a richer
understandingof health and justice and the successful paths to
their realization. The contributors are Judith C. Barker, Paula
Braveman, Paul Brodwin,Jami Suki Chang, Debra DeBruin, Leslie A.
Dubbin, Sarah Horton, Carla C.Keirns, J. Paul Kelleher, Nicholas B.
King, Eva Feder Kittay, Joan Liaschenko,Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Mary
Faith Marshall, Carolyn Mokley Rouse, JenniferPrah Ruger, and Janet
K. Shim.
Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for
informedanalyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve
original essays inthis volume show that common public debates
routinely bypass complexethical, sociocultural, historical, and
political questions about how we shouldaddress ideals of justice
and equality in health care. Integrating perspectivesfrom the
humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the
contributorsilluminate the relationships between justice and health
inequalitiesto complicate and enrich debates often dominated by
simplistic narratives. Understanding Health Inequalities and
Justice grounds key conceptualdiscussions in timely case studies
and policy analyses that explore threeoverarching questions: first,
how do scholars approach relations betweenhealth inequalities and
ideals of justice; second, when do justice considerationsinform
solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific
healthinequalities affect perceptions of injustice; and third, how
can diverse scholarlyapproaches contribute to better health policy?
From addressing patientagency in an inequitable health care
environment to examining how scholarsof social justice and health
care amass evidence, this volume combines theskills and
sensibilities of diverse scholars to promote a richer
understandingof health and justice and the successful paths to
their realization. The contributors are Judith C. Barker, Paula
Braveman, Paul Brodwin,Jami Suki Chang, Debra DeBruin, Leslie A.
Dubbin, Sarah Horton, Carla C.Keirns, J. Paul Kelleher, Nicholas B.
King, Eva Feder Kittay, Joan Liaschenko,Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Mary
Faith Marshall, Carolyn Mokley Rouse, JenniferPrah Ruger, and Janet
K. Shim.
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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.
Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue
theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical
theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional
ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the
emotions.
Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or
virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness
(heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character
traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which
particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our
lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an
impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both posing an
alternative to, and, in some ways, complementing well-known
theoretical stances such as utilitarianism and deontology. Yet
there is still very little material available that presents
virtue-ethical approaches to practical contemporary moral problems,
such as what we owe distant strangers, our parents, or even
non-human animals. This book fills the gap by dealing with these
and other pressing moral problems in a clear and theoretically
nuanced manner.
The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, including
pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative,
and stoic. This variety allows the reader to appreciate not only
the wide range of topics for which a virtue-ethical approach may be
fitting, but also the distinctive ways in which such an approach
may be manifested.
Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue
theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical
theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional
ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the
emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character
traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness
(heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character
traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which
particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our
lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an
impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both posing an
alternative to, and, in some ways, complementing well-known
theoretical stances such as utilitarianism and deontology. Yet
there is still very little material available that presents
virtue-ethical approaches to practical contemporary moral problems,
such as what we owe distant strangers, our parents, or even
non-human animals. This book fills the gap by dealing with these
and other pressing moral problems in a clear and theoretically
nuanced manner. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives,
including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese,
comparative, and stoic. This variety allows the reader to
appreciate not only the wide range of topics for which a
virtue-ethical approach may be fitting, but also the distinctive
ways in which such an approach may be manifested.
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