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Subject(s)

• Discrimination in medical care [Browse]
• Minorities—Medical care—United States [Browse]
• Health services accessibility—Standards—United States [Browse]

Series

Critical issues in health and medicine [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.

Contents

• Healthcare and law : appreciating the need to protect human dignity
• Philosophical and legal conceptions of dignity : trusting your doctor
• Emergency care in America : law, morality and ethics "I'm nobody. who are you? Are you nobody too?"
• Professional bias, class bias, and power : emotional distress
• The love doctor : sex and gender bias : breach of trust and abuse of power
• Innovative therapy and medical experimentation : the maverick surgeon
• Introduction : perspectives on racism : "black people just don't understand"- the botched hysterectomy : race, healthcare, and human dignity
• Healthcare disparities as a lived experience : one family's story : unequal community access
• Catastrophic injuries : protecting and restoring human dignity
• Orthopedic health disparities : grappling with socioeconomic factors that affect health and healthcare
• Paying for healthcare costs : lessons from a 50-year-old government program called Medicare
• Health care and human dignity in a diverse and changing world the critical role of empathy, compassion and humility.

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ISBN

• 9781978802957 ((pbk.))
• 1978802951 ((pbk.))
• 9781978802964 ((hbk.))
• 197880296X ((hbk.))
• 9781978802971
• 1978802978
• 9781978802988
• 1978802986

LCCN

2019012448

OCLC

1090359046

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