Description
Book SynopsisMakes 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 theories of health care justice, Charlene Galarneau postulates the ethical norms of community justice.
Trade Review"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." -- Audrey R. Chapman * Healey Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Connecticut School of Medicine *
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Communities of Health Care Justice is vital reading for all who see health care as something more meaningful than a bone in a partisan dog-fight. Galarneau’s deeply thoughtful book elevates communities to a place they have rarely been granted but certainly merit-- the heart of health policy discourse."
-- Mark Schlesinger * Professor of Health Policy, Yale University *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1Health Care as a Community Good
2Communities Obscured: Liberal Theories of Healthcare Justice
3Communities Constrained: A Liberal Communitarian View
4Community Justice
5Community Justice in U.S. Health Policy
Conclusion
NotesBibliographyIndex
