This pioneering work addresses a key issue that confronts all industrialised nations: How do we organise healthcare services in accordance with fundamental human rights whilst competing with scientific and technological advances powerful commercial interests and widespread public ignorance? The Nature of Health presents a coherent affordable and logical way to build a healthcare system. It argues against a health system fixated on the pursuit of longevity and suggests an alternative where the ability of an individual to function in worthwhile relationships is a better more human goal. By reviewing the etymology sociology and anthropology of health this controversial guide examines the meaning of health and proves how a community-centred healthcare system improves local economy creates social capital and is affordable rational personal and just.
By:
Michael Fine,
James Peters,
Robert S. Lawrence
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 238mm,
Width: 160mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781846192067
ISBN 10: 1846192064
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 20 August 2007
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
What health is not: demented and contracted. The health we have. The health we buy. What we measure is not health. Medications are not health. Medicine is not health either. Science is business, not health. Hancock County. What went wrong and why? The happy victim. The human tsunami. The reductive trap. The trap is sprung. How longevity kidnapped health. Medical services and communities. The zero sum game. Three people, three aortas. What health is. A fib. What Webster thinks. Old villages, new lives. Toward a social definition of health. Health and community together. Health and fairness. Amish boy. What's next? Who gets what? How should it look? How should we pay for it? Which doctors?
Fine\, Michael; Peters\, James
Reviews for The Nature of Health: How America Lost, and Can Regain, a Basic Human Value
'Compelling [...] raises important questions about the goals of health- care spending.' AGEING AND SOCIETY
