Health and the Good Society
Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 June 2008
- ISBN 9780199232949
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 233x157x14 mm
- Weight 399 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What is health policy for? Alan Cribb addresses this question in a way that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. His core argument is that biomedical ethics should draw upon public health values and ethics. He argues that everybody has some share of responsibility for health, including a responsibility for promoting greater health equality.
MoreLong description:
The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy. Health and the Good Society is the first full-length work that addresses these debates in a way that cuts across these disciplinary boundaries.
Alan Cribb's core argument is that clinical ethics needs to be understood in the context of public health ethics. This entails healthcare ethics embracing 'the social dimension' of health in two overlapping senses: first, the various respects in which health experiences and outcomes are socially determined; and second, the ways in which health-related goods are better understood as social rather then purely individual goods. This broader approach to the ethics of healthcare includes a concern with the social construction of both healthcare goods and the roles, ideals, and obligations of agents; that is to say it focuses upon the 'value field' of health-related action and not only upon the ethics of action within this value field. This groundbreaking book thus seeks to 'open up' the agenda of healthcare ethics both methodologically and substantively: it argues that population-oriented perspectives are central to all healthcare ethics, and that everybody has some share of responsibility for securing health-related goods including the good of greater health equality. One of its major conclusions is that the rather limited tradition of health education policy and practice needs a complete re-think.
Review from previous edition both an engaging and a challenging read
Table of Contents:
Part I. The Evolving Value Field of Healthcare
The Diffusion of the Public Health Agenda
Producing the Goods: Health, Welfare, and Well-being
Participation in Health Decisions: Patient and Community Empowerment
Part II. Health Policy Ethics
Health Promotion and the Good Society
The Distribution of Health and Healthcare
Responsibility for Health
Part III. Institutions and Vocations
Professional Ethics in Context
Managing Healthcare: Making or breaking healthcare goods?
The Boundaries of Professional Legitimacy
Part IV. Education, Ethics, and Agenda Setting
Rethinking Health Education
Towards a Socially Reflexive Healthcare Ethics
Making the Health Agenda
