Communities of Health Care Justice / Charlene Galarneau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galarneau, Charlene, author.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--United States.

Community health services.

Public health--United States.

Public health.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-7769-1

OCLC:

961910002