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Health care and the ethics of encounter : a Jewish discussion of social justice /
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse of ethics for framing a response. The author offers a bold claim: to renew our chances of achieving social justice, she argues, we must turn to the Jewish tradition. That tradition envisions an ethics of conversational encounter that is deeply social and profoundly public, as well as offering resources for recovering a language of community that addresses the issues raised by the health care allocation debate. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union in California, 1993. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807876208 9780807876206 0807824186 9780807824184 |