Galarneau, Charlene,

Communities of health care justice /Charlene Galarneau. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Critical issues in health and medicine .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Health care as a community good -- Communities obscured : liberal theories of health care justice -- Communities constrained : a liberal communitarian view -- Community justice -- Community justice in U.S. health policy.

U.S. health care has often been conceived as a social good, and more specifically as a national good. Communities of Health Care Justice presents an alternate model, making a powerful ethical argument for why smaller communities-bound together by culture, religion, gender, race, and place-should be regarded as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Furthermore, it outlines the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to move toward this health care justice.



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Community health services--United States.
Public health--United States.
Medical care--United States.
Medical policy.
Community Health Services--ethics
Socioeconomic Factors
Health Policy
Social Justice--ethics


Electronic Books.

RA399 / .C666 2016