基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005.
Full 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 Cthics 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.
Contents
PART I. THE EVOLVING VALUE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE ; 1. The Diffusion of the Public Health Agenda ; 2. Producing the Goods: Health, Welfare, and Well-being ; 3. Participation in Health Decisions: Patient and Community Empowerment ; PART II. HEALTH POLICY ETHICS ; 4. Health Promotion and the Good Society ; 5. The Distribution of Health and Healthcare ; 6. Responsibility for Health ; PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND VOCATIONS ; 7. Professional Ethics in Context ; 8. Managing Healthcare: Making or breaking healthcare goods? ; 9. The Boundaries of Professional Legitimacy ; PART IV. EDUCATION, ETHICS, AND AGENDA SETTING ; 10. Rethinking Health Education ; 11. Towards a Socially Reflexive Healthcare Ethics ; 12. Making the Health Agenda
