Rethinking Rural Health Ethics

by Christy Simpson and Fiona McDonald

Book Overview

This book challenges readers to rethink rural health ethics. Traditional approaches to health ethics are often urban-centric, making implicit assumptions about how values and norms apply in health care practice, and as such may fail to take into account the complexity, depth, richness, and diversity of the rural context. There are ethically relevant differences between rural health practice and rural health services delivery and urban practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319608096
• ISBN13: 9783319608099
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"