The Rule of Love : The Power of Presence for Reforming Health Institutions and Global Health Leadership.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Campos-Rudinsky, Thana C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform.

Health facilities.

Love.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The Rule of Love contends that traditional justice falls short in justifying our ethical duty to care for those suffering from illnesses. It demonstrates how infusing love into both personal relationships and institutional policies can effectively reduce suffering across political borders, offering a transformative vision for health institutions and global health leadership.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section 1. Why Love, Global Affairs, and Global Health Governance Belong Together

Section 2. The Knowledge Gap on Love

Section 3. Contribution to the Literature

Section 4. Main Findings

Section 5. An Overview of the Book

Section 6. Takeaway Message of the Book

Part I A Typology of Love-A Conceptual Analysis of Agape in the Context of Healthcare and Global Health

1 On Mercy

Section 1. A Conceptual Analysis of Mercy

1.1. Mercy as Forgiveness within the Context of Healthcare and Global Health

1.2. What Mercy Is Not

1.3. Three Typical Characteristics of Mercy

1.3.1. Mercy as Discretion: Navigating Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness

1.3.2. Mercy as Gratuitous Generosity: The Rationale of Gift

1.3.3. Mercy as a Reciprocal Gift-of-Self

Section 2. Responses to Objections to My Conceptual Account of Mercy

2.1. Objection Regarding Suppression of Negative Emotions

2.2. Objection Regarding Imbalance of Power

2.3. Objection Regarding the Duty to Reciprocate the Gratuitous Generosity of a Gift with Gratitude

Section 3. Application to GHG: Mercy-based Decoloniality

3.1. Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice in Global Health

3.2. Mercy-based Decoloniality as an Alternative

Conclusion

2 On Compassion

Section 1. The concept of compassion and its three stages

1.1. Differentiating Compassion, Mercy, and Pity

1.1.1. Compassion vs. Mercy

1.1.2. Compassion vs. Pity

1.2. Three Related Concepts in the Process of Compassion: From Sympathy, to Empathy, to Compassionate Conduct of Care

Section 2. The Affective Stage of Compassion: The Feeling of Sympathy

2.1. Sympathy as Self-centered

2.2. Sympathy, Emotional Contagion, and Burnout.

2.3. Addressing Burnout

Section 3. The Intellectual Process of Empathy: From Sympathy to Compassionate Care

3.1. The Process of Empathy

3.2. Empathy and Reciprocal Dying to Self

3.3. Dying to Self: The Hypothetical Case of Mr. Zangado

3.3.1. The Interaction Setting

3.3.2. The Institutional Setting

3.4. Dying to Self at the Interactional Level

3.5. Dying to Self at the Institutional Level

3.6. Presence as Active Participation and Cooperation: Meaningful Inclusion in Lieu of Absence, Alienation, and Mere Tolerant Co-Existence

3.7. Presence and the Transcendent Good of Relationality

Section 4. The Effective Stage of Compassion: Compassionate Conduct of Care

4.1. Effectively Tailored Care

4.2. Presence as the Absence of Words and Actions

4.3. Friendship and Solidarity: The Upshots of an Effectively Tailored Compassionate Conduct of Care

4.4. Presence Before Efficiency Does Not Mean No Efficiency

4.5. Proper Understanding of Love of Neighbor and Love of Self: My Reading of the Good Samaritan

3 On Beneficence

Section 1. A Conceptual Analysis of Beneficence

Section 2. Objections to My Conceptual Analysis of Benevolence and Beneficence

2.1. Response to the Problem of Paternalism

2.2. Response to the Problem of Love, Care, and Doing for Another

2.3. Response to the Problem of Asymmetries of Vulnerability and Dependence

2.3.1. The Parent-Infant Model

2.3.2. The Caregiver-Ill Patient Model

2.4. Normalizing Asymmetries of Dependence and Vulnerability: An Opportunity to Grow in Maturity

2.5. From Objections to the Lessons of Love and Beneficence

Section 3. The Core Feature of Beneficence: Being Present

3.1. Doing For, Doing With, Being in Each Other's Presence: A Critical Analysis of Ebels-Duggan's Theory of Love.

3.2. Contemplation as the Foundation of Beneficence

3.3. Complementarity of the Active and Contemplative Aspects of Beneficence in Healthcare and Global health

Concluding Remarks-On Agape

1. What Agape Is and Is Not

2. The Reasonableness of Agape

3. A Vision of Agape: The Complementarity between the Active and the Contemplative

4. Institutional Agape

Part II A Principled Tripartite Framework-A Normative Examination of Agapic Love in the Context of Global Health Governance

4 On Solidarity and Communion

Section 1. Background on Solidarity and Its Application to Scarce Health Resources

1.1. Relevant Conceptions of Solidarity

1.2. Implications of Different Conceptions of Solidarity for Global Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines

Section 2. Radical Vaccine Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity as Effective Altruism among Nations

2.1. Theoretical Objection to Singer: Solidarity as Equality of Treatment and Allocation of Resources among Nations?

2.2. Practical Objection to Singer: Abolition of Intellectual Property Rights for Production of Generic COVID-19 Vaccines

Section 3. The Insufficient Theory of Moderate Vaccine Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity as Underspecified Love of Neighbor

3.1. A Supplementary Theory: Dworkin on Partiality, Prioritization, and Equality of Care and Concern

3.2. Shoring-up the Shortcomings of the Dworkinian Account

3.2.1. Ordo Amoris as a Guide to Solidarity

3.2.2. Conceptual Clarity: Equality of Respect as a Response to Shortcomings with Equity of Care

Section 4. My Proposed Agapic Theory of Moderate Vaccine Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity as Agapic Love of Neighbor

4.1. Theoretical Grounds for Solidarity as Agapic Love of Neighbor: Friendship among Persons and Nations

4.1.1. Factual Basis of Equality

4.1.2. Imago Dei and Agapic Love of Neighbor.

4.1.3. Normative Basis of Equality

4.2. Practical Implications of Solidarity as Agapic Love of Neighbor: Application to the COVID-19 Pandemic

5 On Subsidiarity and Community

Section 1. Background Information: GHG, WHO, and Core Problems

1.1. Lack of Coordination

1.2. Lack of Inclusion of Local Communities

Section 2. The Centralization Approach to GHG Reform

2.1. Limitations of the Centralization Approach

2.2. Limitations for Decoloniality

Section 3. The Robust Decentralization Approach to GHG Reform

3.1. The Principle of Subsidiarity

3.2. Objections to the Application of Subsidiarity

3.3. The Requirements of Subsidiarity

3.3.1. Non-abandonment: Assistance in the Pursuit of a Common Good

3.3.2. Respecting the Agency of Those in Need: Subsidiarity as a Decolonial Tool

3.3.3. Ordering Our Loves According to Closeness

3.4. Implications of Subsidiarity on the Role of the WHO

6 On Stewardship and Communication

Section 1. The Principle of Stewardship and the Problem of Deception in Public Health

1.1. Stewardship in the Context of Public Health

1.2. Stewardship vs. Paternalism

1.3. The Leader as Steward

1.4. The Problem of Deception in Public Health Communication

1.4.1. Concealment vs. Deception

1.4.2. Types of Deception in Global and Public Health Communications

Section 2. Brutal Honesty and Its Shortcomings

2.1. Excessive Honesty and Violation of Agency

2.2. Excessive Transparency and Erosion of Trust

Section 3. The Stewardship Model of Good Communication

3.1. The Premises of the Model

3.2. The Ingredients of the Model

3.2.1. Loving Attention

3.2.2. Reasonably Vulnerable Honesty

3.2.3. Empathetic Listening

3.3. Applying the Stewardship Model of Good Communication to GHG

Conclusion.

Concluding Remarks-On Agape and Governance

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-776238-7

0-19-776240-9

0-19-776239-5

9780197762387

OCLC:

1573145745