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Healthcare and Human Dignity : Law Matters / Frank M. McClellan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Issues in Health and MedicinePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978802995
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1089 23
LOC classification:
  • RA563.M56 .M335 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part 1 Fighting for Access to Care -- Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience -- Chapter 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity -- Chapter 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor -- Chapter 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality, and Ethics -- Part 2 Power and Trust -- Chapter 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power -- Chapter 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power -- Chapter 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children? -- Part 3 Racism in Healthcare: Practice, Policy, and Law -- Chapter 7 Perspectives on Racism -- Chapter 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience -- Chapter 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity -- Chapter 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors That Affect Health and Healthcare -- Chapter 11 Paying for Healthcare: Lessons from a Fifty-Year- Old Government Program Called Medicare -- Chapter 12 Healthcare and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World: The Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion, and Humility -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part 1 Fighting for Access to Care -- Introduction: Human Dignity as a Lived Experience -- Chapter 1 Healthcare and Law: Appreciating the Need to Protect Human Dignity -- Chapter 2 Philosophical and Legal Conceptions of Dignity: Trusting Your Doctor -- Chapter 3 Emergency Care in America: Law, Morality, and Ethics -- Part 2 Power and Trust -- Chapter 4 Professional Bias, Class Bias, and Power -- Chapter 5 The Love Doctor: Sex and Gender Bias; Breach of Trust and Abuse of Power -- Chapter 6 Innovative Therapy and Medical Experimentation: The Maverick Surgeon: Medical Experimentation on Children? -- Part 3 Racism in Healthcare: Practice, Policy, and Law -- Chapter 7 Perspectives on Racism -- Chapter 8 Healthcare Disparities as a Lived Experience -- Chapter 9 Catastrophic Injuries: Protecting and Restoring Human Dignity -- Chapter 10 Orthopedic Health Disparities: Grappling with Socioeconomic Factors That Affect Health and Healthcare -- Chapter 11 Paying for Healthcare: Lessons from a Fifty-Year- Old Government Program Called Medicare -- Chapter 12 Healthcare and Human Dignity in a Diverse and Changing World: The Critical Role of Empathy, Compassion, and Humility -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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