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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hearing Health Care Values; PART ONE: The Moral Languages of US Health Care; Chapter 1: Health Care as a Private Benefit or Private Choice; Chapter 2: Health Care as a Public Right; Chapter 3: Health Care as a Social Good; PART TWO: Religious Values in Health Policy, Markets, and Politics; Chapter 4: Modeling Community Benefits: Social Contract, Common Good, Covenant; Chapter 5: Assessing Market-Driven Reforms: Economy without Solidarity; Chapter 6: Building Solidarity: Religious Activism and Social Justice. |
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Conclusion: Religious Values and Community CareBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Summary |
David M. Craig traveled across the United States to assess health care access, delivery and finance in this country. He interviewed religious hospital administrators and interfaith activists, learning how they balance the values of economic efficiency and community accountability. He met with conservatives, liberals, and moderates, reviewing their ideas for market reform or support for the Affordable Care Act. He discovered that health care in the US is not a private good or a public good. Decades of public policy and philanthropic service have made health care a shared social good. Health Car. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Health care reform -- United States.
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Health care reform. |
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United States. |
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Political planning -- United States.
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Political planning. |
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Religion.
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Religion. |
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social justice. |
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Social values -- United States.
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Social values. |
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Public Policy. |
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Health Care Reform. |
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Social Values. |
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Social Justice. |
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Religion. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Craig, David M. Health Care as a Social Good. Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2014 9781626161382 |
| ISBN |
9781626160989 (electronic book) |
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1626160988 (electronic book) |
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1626161380 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781626161382 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781626160774 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1626160775 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781626161382 |
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