Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority

by Mahowald and Mary Briody Mahowald

Book Overview

The ideal of equality constitutes a criterion for assessing current practice through attention to differences among individuals and groups. Inequality occurs when irrelevant differences are invoked in order to secure power or advantages over others. This book examines health care issues from an egalitarian perspective, focusing particularly on those that affect the lives of women and children. These are some of the most hotly debated, controversial,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108701
• ISBN13: 9780195108705
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"