Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare "To Count among the Living"

by Vigen, Aana Marie

• ISBN13: 9780230113633
• ISBN10: 023011363X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Aana Marie Vigen explores health and healthcare inequities in the U.S. and around the world, the ethics of genetic testing and artificial reproductive technologies, ethnographic methods in Christian ethics, and notions of  “a good death”  in her scholarship and teaching. Currently Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, she earned her Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 2004.

Table of Contents

Foreword--Dwight N. Hopkins and Linda E. Thomas * Acknowledgements * Preface: A White Woman's Attempt to Listen * Introduction * U.S. Healthcare 101: What Everyone Needs to Know about How U.S. Inhabitants Are Treated (or Not) * A Call to the Particular: Contributions from Theology and Qualitative Research * Listening * Resisting Death, Celebrating Life: Christian Social Ethics for Healthcare