Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice (Studies in Social Medicine) - Couverture souple

Zoloth, Laurie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080784828X ISBN 13 : 9780807848289

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Zoloth Laurie

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Laurie Zoloth 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. Constructing her argument around a careful analysis of selected classic and postmodern Jewish texts and a thoughtful examination of the Oregon health care reform plan, Zoloth encourages a radical rethinking of what has become familiar ground in debates on social justice.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Laurie Zoloth is associate professor of social ethics and Jewish philosophy and chair of the program in Jewish studies at San Francisco State University. She is also co-founder of The Ethics Practice, a firm devoted to providing bioethics education and clinical consultation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 080784828X
• ISBN 13: 9780807848289
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342