Overview
- The first book to critique the existing urban-centric understanding of health ethics
- Reframes our current understanding of how ethics operates in a rural health context
- Recognises and builds upon the strengths inherent in rural contexts creating a positive approach to rural health ethics
- Provides an ethical approach which supports decision-making about policy and practices at micro, meso and macro levels in rural health care
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 72)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Deconstructing Rural Health Ethics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 and delivery that go beyond the stereotypes associated with rural life and rural health services. This book examines key values in the rural context that have not been fully explored or taken into account when we examine health ethics issues, including the values of community and place, and a need to “revalue” relationships. It also advocates for a greater attention to meso and macro level analysis in rural health ethics as being critical to ethical analysis of rural health care. This book is essential reading for thoseinvolved in health ethics, rural health policy and governance, and for rural health providers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Christy Simpson is Head and an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the coordinator for the Ethics Collaborations with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. Her primary responsibilities include ethics education and capacity-building, policy development and review, and support for clinical and organisational ethics consultations.
Fiona McDonald is a Senior Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She teaches health law, health ethics and health management at the under-graduate and graduate levels. Her research interests are focused on the governance ofhealth systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Rural Health Ethics
Authors: Christy Simpson, Fiona McDonald
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60811-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60809-9Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86939-1Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60811-2Published: 13 August 2017
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 175
Topics: Ethics, Medicine/Public Health, general