Health care politics, policy, and services: a social justice analysis

"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "New to this Edition" -- "Contents" -- "Intended Audience" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Share Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services: A Social Justice Analysis, Third Edition" -- "Chapter 1: A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care" -- "Defining the Problem of Social Justice" -- "Alternative Theories of Social Justice" -- "The Progression of Theories Considered: Emergent Theories of Justice as "Moral Improvements"" -- "The Libertarian Theoretical Perspective on Social Justice" -- "The Utilitarian Theoretical Perspective on Social Justice" -- "A Marxist Theoretical Perspective on Social Justice" -- "The Rawlsian "Justice as Fairness" Liberal Theoretical Perspective on Social Justice" -- "The Capabilities Approach to Social Justice" -- "Concluding Comments: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on "The Right to Health Care"" -- "The Nature of Positive Rights" -- "Five Theoretical Perspectives on Positive Rights to Health and Health Care: Their Essential Distinctions" -- "Special Considerations and Caveats" -- "The Choice of the "Justice as Fairness" Liberal Theory of Rawls as a Framework for Analysis of Health and Health Care Policy Alternatives: Four Essential Reasons" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2: The Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System" -- "Historical Evolvement of the Basic Components of the Health Care System: Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, and Health Insurance" -- "A Brief History of the American Hospital System" -- "The Brief Overlapping Histories of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Insurance" -- "The Medical Profession: The Colonial Period Through Abraham Flexner (1760–1910)" -- "The Historical Evolvement of the Federal Government in Health Care

This new edition of the AJN Award-winning textbook analyzes the most current health care reforms and their effect on our health system from a social justice perspective. It addresses the reforms of the landmark health care reform bill passed in March, 2010, and provides students of health care policy with a framework within which they can understand and evaluate our health system. The text provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the historical evolution and organization of our health care system that is framed by a forthright social justice critique. In addition to extensive cover

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!.: Who Has a Right to Health Care?.; What Is the Government's Role in Providing Accessible Health Care?.; How Are Corporations, Insurance Companies, and Health Care Providers Affecting the Quality of Health Care?.; And, Most Importantly, Can We Reform the U.S. Health Care System?. We often debate these issues in health care policy or public health courses, yet we do so without the proper knowledge of the underlying structure of the U.S. health care system--or a framework by which it can be judged. Many health care worker