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Health and the Good Society
Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context

Alan Cribb

Price: £58.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924273-3
Publication date: 13 October 2005
250 pages, 234x156 mm
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Reviews

'both an engaging and a challenging read' - Lynette Reid, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Description

A major new contribution from a leading public health expert
Argues for a radical new conception of healthcare ethics
Truly interdisciplinary: cuts across philosophy, sociology, politics, and medicine

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.

Readership: Medical practitioners, health policy-makers; ethicists

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

Authors, editors, and contributors

Alan Cribb, Centre for Public Policy Research, King's College London

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More in the same subject area:
Personal & public health
Medical ethics
Practical & applied ethics

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Health and the Good SocietySetting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context

Health and the Good Society
Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context