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Charlene Galarneau - Communities of Health Care Justice - 9780813577678 - V9780813577678
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Communities of Health Care Justice

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Description for Communities of Health Care Justice Hardback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813577678
SKU
V9780813577678
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About Charlene Galarneau
CHARLENE GALARNEAU is senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics, Boston, MA. She is also associate professor emerita in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department as well as former director of the Health and Society Minor at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.

Reviews for Communities of Health Care Justice
"This book should be required reading for every nurse and health care professional as well as anyone interested in improving health care in the US… Highly recommended."
Choice
"Galarneau addresses an important issue often missing from theories of health justice and provides a unique and novel perspective. Communities of Health Care Justice is both clear and comprehensive in its scope." ... Read more

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