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The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McClellan, Frank M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Temas:
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Minorities > Health and hygiene > United States.
Minorities > Medical care > United States.
LAW / General.
Healthcare, human dignity, humanity, medicine, health, wellness, law, American healthcare system, United States, individual bias, structural bias, power, class, gender, sexual orientation, prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, individual worth, equality, autonomy, doctors, nurses, hospitals, drug companies, patients, scrubs, healthcare policies, healthcare law, medical malpractice, healthcare financing, bioethics, economic structure, social structure, marginalization, healthcare lawyers, healthcare professionals, healthcare policymakers, equity.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part 1 Fighting for Access to Care
  • Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience
  • Chapter 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity
  • Chapter 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor
  • Chapter 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality, and Ethics
  • Part 2 Power and Trust
  • Chapter 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power
  • Chapter 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power
  • Chapter 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children?
  • Part 3 Racism in Healthcare: Practice, Policy, and Law
  • Chapter 7 Perspectives on Racism
  • Chapter 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience
  • Chapter 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity
  • Chapter 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors That Affect Health and Healthcare
  • Chapter 11 Paying for Healthcare: Lessons from a Fifty-Year- Old Government Program Called Medicare
  • Chapter 12 Healthcare and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World: The Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion, and Humility
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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