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Lisa A. Eckenwiler - Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice - 9781421405506 - V9781421405506
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Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice

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Description for Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice Provides an understanding of the long-term care works to generate injustice, but also to find ethical and practicable policy solutions for caring for aging populations in the United States. This title explores the ethical issues surrounding elder care from an ecological perspective to propose a new theory of global justice for long-term care. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; MBDC; MBP; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Long-term care can be vexing on a personal as well as social level, and it will only grow more so as individuals continue to live longer and the population of aged persons increases in the United States and around the world. This volume explores the ethical issues surrounding elder care from an ecological perspective to propose a new theory of global justice for long-term care. Care work is organized not just nationally, as much current debate suggests, but also transnationally, through economic, labor, immigration, and health policies established by governments, international lending bodies, and for-profit entities. Taking an epistemological approach termed "ecological knowing", Lisa A. Eckenwiler examines this organizational structure to show how it creates and sustains injustice against the dependent elderly and those who care for them, including a growing number of migrant care workers, and how it weakens the capacities of so-called source countries and their health care systems. By focusing on the fact that a range of policies, people, and places are interrelated and mutually dependent, Eckenwiler is able not only to provide a holistic understanding of the way long-term care works to generate injustice but also to find ethical and practicable policy solutions for caring for aging populations in the United States and in less well-off parts of the world. Deeply considered and empirically informed, this examination of the troubles in transnational long-term care is the first to probe the issue from a perspective that reckons with the interdependence of policies, people, and places, and the first to recommend ways policymakers, planners, and families can together develop cohesive, coherent long-term care policies around the ideal of justice.

Product Details

Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405506
SKU
V9781421405506
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About Lisa A. Eckenwiler
Lisa A. Eckenwiler is an associate professor of philosophy and health administration and policy and director of health care ethics at George Mason University. She is coeditor of The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Reviews for Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice
Eckenwiler argues for ethical and ecological thinking about transnational long-term care in this brief collection of her essays. Choice A formidable amount of information is included, and the call for policies that can facilitate provision of quality long-term care that is just and equitable for less affluent as well as more affluent countries is a welcome addition to the literature on this topic.
Patrick Fox JAMA [Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice] provides a valuable function in highlighting an important issue and provoking readers to appreciate its complexity and the moral issues raised.
Pamela Nadash World Medical & Health Policy

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