Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform Pdf

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Edition: 1St Edition
Release: 2000-04
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0700610146
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Few issues concern the American public today more than health care. Just ask anyone who has sat for hours in an HMO waiting room or made countless phone calls trying to have a claim settled--or anyone who can't get coverage. But whenever basic reform is proposed the insurance industry opens a massive campaign against it. Health care today is part of big business, which in defeating the Clinton plan successfully pushed any kind of basic reform off the political agenda. Continuing citizen support for some form of public insurance is, says Milton Fisk, a sign that basic reform is still possible. In his new book, he argues persuasively that basic reform goes beyond a matter of life and death--it's integral to maintaining a society where concern for others holds its own against the market. Health care, observes Fisk, is not simply an individual responsibility but a public good much like education, and commitment to the social values underlying these public goods is essenti Download Toward a Healthy Society for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Health Inequality: Morality and Measurement

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Edition: 2
Release: 2007-11-24
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0802092446
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In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of justice play in health inequality research, and to articulate the moral philosophy underlying this field of inquiry.Comprised of two distinct parts, Health Inequality first proposes a framework for measuring health inequality reflecting moral concern, then goes on to show how this framework can be applied to quantitative study. Using a specific time period as a case study, Asada questions whether or not health equity improved in the United States between 1990 and 1995. She suggests that the question of whether, and by how much, health inequity changed in the United States is dependent on the morality and accompanying empirical strategy used in the analysis.A unique blend of philosophy and q Download Health Inequality for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home (Morality and Society Series)

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Edition: 1
Release: 1998-07-20
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0226325059
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For the Sake of the Children examines the social organization of responsibility by asking who takes responsibility for critically ill newborns. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the authors take us into two neonatal intensive care units, showing us the traumas of extreme medical measures and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns heroic and disturbing as we see people trying to take charge of these infants' care, thinking about long-term plans, redefining their roles as adults and parents, and coping with sometimes awful contingencies.

Rather than treating responsibility as an ethical issue, the authors focus on how responsibility is socially produced and sustained. The authors ask: How do staff members encourage parents to take responsibility, but keep them from interfering in medical matters, and how do parents encourage staff vigilance when they are novices attempting to supervise the experts?

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Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Morality and Society Series)

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Edition: 1
Release: 1996-06-15
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0226101029
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Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.

Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how patients, many weak and helpless, too often become objects of the bureaucratic machinery of the health care system and how ethics decisions, once the dilemmas of troubled individuals, become the setting for political turf battles between occupational interest groups. The result is a compelling combination of realism and a powerful theoretical argument about moral life in large organizations. Download Beyond Caring for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 1984-08-31
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0306416409
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