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

What is health policy for? In Health and the Good Society, 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; specifically, he argues that everybody has some share of resp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cribb, Alan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:	Issues in biomedical ethics.
Subjects:	Medical ethics. Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects. Social values. Medical policy. Ethics, Medical Health Policy Public Health > ethics Ethics, Clinical Social Values Éthique médicale. Médecine clinique > Aspect moral. Valeurs sociales. Politique sanitaire. MEDICAL > Ethics. Medical policy Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects Medical ethics Social values Gesundheitsförderung Ethik Sozialmedizin Gesundheitspolitik Sozialethik Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : the diffusion of the health agenda
Producing the goods : health, welfare and well-being
Participating in health decisions : patient and community empowerment
Health promotion in the good society
The distribution of health and healthcare
Responsibility for health
Professional ethics in context
Managing healthcare : making or breaking healthcare goods?
The boundaries of professional legitimacy
Rethinking health education
Towards a socially reflexive healthcare ethics
Making the health agenda.