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Health and the good society : setting healthcare ethics in social context / Alan Cribb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cribb, Alan, author.
- Series:
- Issues in biomedical ethics.
- Issues in biomedical ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Clinical medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Clinical medicine.
- Social values.
- Medical policy.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Health Policy.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Social Values.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethics, Medical.
- Health Policy.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Ethics, Clinical.
- Social Values.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages).
- Other Title:
- Setting healthcare ethics in social context
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy. Health and the Good Society is the first full-length work that addresses these debates in a way that cuts across these disciplinary boundaries. Alan Cribb's core argument is that clinical ethics needs to be understood in the context of public health ethics. This entails healthcare ethics embracing 'the social dimension' of health in two overlapping s
- Contents:
- Introduction : the diffusion of the health agenda
- Producing the goods : health, welfare and well-being
- Participating in health decisions : patient and community empowerment
- Health promotion in the good society
- The distribution of health and healthcare
- Responsibility for health
- Professional ethics in context
- Managing healthcare : making or breaking healthcare goods?
- The boundaries of professional legitimacy
- Rethinking health education
- Towards a socially reflexive healthcare ethics
- Making the health agenda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-229) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-923294-6
- 1-282-18593-4
- 9786612185939
- 0-19-152940-0
- 1-4237-5724-6
- OCLC:
- 64589351
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