Communities of Health Care Justice / / Charlene Galarneau.

The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (158 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Chapter 1. Health Care as a Community Good --
Chapter 2. Communities Obscured: Liberal Theories of Health Care Justice --
Chapter 3. Communities Constrained: A Liberal Communitarian View --
Chapter 4. Community Justice --
Chapter 5. Community Justice in U.S. Health Policy --
Conclusion --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
About the Author
Summary:The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered and requires the participation of multiple and diverse communities. Communities of Health Care Justice makes a powerful ethical argument for treating communities as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Drawing together the key community dimensions of health care, and demonstrating their neglect in most prominent theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice. In the process, she proposes that while the subnational communities of health care justice are defined by shared place, including those bound by culture, religion, gender, and race that together they define justice. As she constructs her innovative theorization of health care justice, Galarneau also reveals its firm grounding in the work of real-world health policy and community advocates. Communities of Health Care Justice not only strives to imagine a new framework of just health care, but also to show how elements of this framework exist in current health policy, and to outline the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to put these justice norms into fuller practice.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780813577692
9783110666144
DOI:10.36019/9780813577692?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Charlene Galarneau.