Overview
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. When seriously ill, what contributes to a sense of being truly cared for and respected? This compelling book explores healthcare inequalities by listening closely to Black and Latina women with breast cancer. It puts their stories into conversation with current healthcare statistics, sharp theological imagination, healthcare providers, and social ethics. Vigen contends that ethicists, healthcare providers, and scholars arrive at an adequate understanding of human dignity and personhood only when they take seriously the experiences and needs of those most vulnerable due to systemic inequalities.
Full Product Details
Author: A. Vigen ,
Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2007 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.421kg
ISBN: 9780230113633
ISBN 10: 023011363
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 24 October 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p> With a profoundly ethical study of the subject matter, Vigen does a wonderful job of exploring gender/class/race injustices in U.S. healthcare. Her update on healthcare since 2006 is especially helpful, given Obama's 2010 plan for healthcare reform. Vigen's ethnographic approach also provides an important challenge to the field of theology and ethics. --Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Duke Divinity School <p> This exceptional work documents the endemic marginalization of people of color in the U.S. healthcare system at the same time that it shows the fatal flaws in the system as a whole. Readers will see recent data and learn the sources with which to update it. Vigen shows how subtle or overt assumptions of white supremacy infect even the most well-intentioned care providers and bioethicists. She issues a wake-up call, and a call to solidarity and action. The book was enlightening to me as a scholar, and the new paperback edition will be assigned to my next bioethics class. --Lisa So
Author Information
Aana Marie Vigen explores healthcare disparities, the commodification of life, ethnographic methods in medical ethics, and notions of a ""a good death"" in her scholarship and teaching. Currently Assistant Professor of Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, she earned her Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 2004.
