Health and the good society : setting healthcare ethics in social context /

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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...

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Weitere Titel:
Setting healthcare ethics in social context
1. Verfasser:
Cribb, Alan
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Zusammenfassung:
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 s
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages).
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-229) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-923294-6
1-282-18593-4
9786612185939
0-19-152940-0
1-4237-5724-6
Schlagworte:
Medical ethics.
Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social values.
Medical policy.
Ethics, Medical. > NLM-D004992
Health Policy. > NLM-D006291
Public Health > ethics.
Ethics, Clinical. > NLM-D026690
Social Values. > NLM-D012945
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