Long-Term Care, Globalization, and Justice

Informationen zum Autor Lisa A. Eckenwiler is an associate professor of philosophy and health administration and policy and director of health care ethics at George Mason University. She is coeditor of The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext Deeply considered and empirically informed, this examination of the troubles in transnational long-term care is the first to probe the issue from a perspective that reckons with the interdependence of policies, people, and places, and the first to recommend ways policymakers, planners, and families can together develop cohesive, coherent long-term care policies around the ideal of justice. Zusammenfassung Provides an understanding of the long-term care works to generate injustice! but also to find ethical and practicable policy solutions for caring for aging populations in the United States. This title explores the ethical issues surrounding elder care from an ecological perspective to propose a new theory of global justice for long-term care.

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Lisa A. Eckenwiler is an associate professor of philosophy and health administration and policy and director of health care ethics at George Mason University. She is coeditor of The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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• Autori: Lisa A Eckenwiler, Lisa A. Eckenwiler, Lisa A. (Associate Professor of Philos Eckenwiler, Lisa A. (Associate Professor of Philosophy Eckenwiler
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781421405506
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0550-6
• Pagine: 168
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche non cliniche; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Geriatrics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Geriatric medicine, Migration, immigration and emigration, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Health systems and services, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples