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- Title
Book reviews.
- Authors
Hudson, Bob
- Abstract
Health care and ethics are a potent combination. There are few easier ways to animate debate, and few better combinations of words to work into the title of a book — in this case somewhat misleadingly. Although certainly about ‘care’ — health and other forms of caring — it has little to do with ethics, at least as a specific focus for analytical investigation. One could, of course, argue that as soon as one discusses health care this will inevitably involve an ethical component. As one of the contributors to this collection claims: ‘ethics has to do with questions like “How should you and I be treated?” (Bergum, p. 168) or even “who am I?”’ (p. 172). In which case, unless one is undertaking a purely descriptive study, ethics will crop up relentlessly. But the book does not study ethical questions head on, using the techniques of moral philosophy; rather it takes a sociological, or even anthropological, approach to various aspects of caring practice and policy.
- Subjects
EXTENDING the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics &; Caring Practices (Book); MEDICAL care; NONFICTION
- Publication
Health & Social Care in the Community, 2000, Vol 8, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0966-0410
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2524.2000.00218.x