Health and the Good Society - Alan Cribb

Health and the Good Society

Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-923294-9 (ISBN)
69,80 inkl. MwSt
What is health policy for? Alan Cribb addresses this question in a way that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. His core argument is that biomedical ethics should draw upon public health values and ethics. He argues that everybody has some share of responsibility for health, including a responsibility for promoting greater health equality.
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.

ALan Cribb is Professor of bioethics and education at King's College London

PART I. THE EVOLVING VALUE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE; PART II. HEALTH POLICY ETHICS; PART III. INSTITUTIONS AND VOCATIONS; PART IV. EDUCATION, ETHICS, AND AGENDA SETTING

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.6.2008
Reihe/Serie Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 233 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10 0-19-923294-6 / 0199232946
ISBN-13 978-0-19-923294-9 / 9780199232949
Zustand Neuware
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