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Long-term Care, Globalization, and Justice
Lisa A. Eckenwiler
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more