U.S. health care has often been conceived as a social good, and more specifically as a national good. Communities of Health Care Justice presents an alternate model, making a powerful ethical argument for why smaller communities—bound together by culture, religion, gender, race, and place—should be regarded as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Furthermore, it outlines the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to move toward this health care justice.
U.S. health care has often been conceived as a social good, and more specifically as a national good. Communities of Health Care Justice presents an alternate model, making a powerful ethical argument for why smaller communities—bound together by culture, religion, gender, race, and place—should be regarded as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Furthermore, it outlines the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to move toward this health care justice.
CHARLENE GALARNEAU is senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics, Boston, MA. She is also associate professor emerita in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department as well as former director of the Health and Society Minor at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Health Care as a Community Good
2Communities Obscured: Liberal Theories of Healthcare Justice
3Communities Constrained: A Liberal Communitarian View