Health and the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context

by Alan Cribb

Book Overview

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analyzed 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232946
• ISBN13: 9780199232949
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"