Doctors serving people [[electronic resource] ] : restoring humanism to medicine through student community service / / Edward J. Eckenfels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453591903321
• Autore: Eckenfels Edward J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-77640-8; 9786611776404; 0-8135-4509-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Collana: Critical issues in health and medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): O'DonnellJoseph
• Disciplina: 362.12
• Soggetti: Community health services - United States; Student volunteers in medical care - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Humanism in the Time of Technocracy -- Chapter 1. The Emergence of the Rush Community Service Initiatives Program -- Chapter 2. Clinics Serving the Poor and Homeless -- Chapter 3. The New Faces of AIDS -- Chapter 4. Community-Based Grassroots Programs -- Chapter 5. The Community Today, Tomorrow the World -- Chapter 6. Looking for Meaning -- Chapter 7. Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients Served -- Chapter 8. The Learning and Development of the Students -- Chapter 9. Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism, and Planning Reform -- Chapter 10. A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of the Call of Service -- Appendix A. Sources of Funding for RCSIP -- Appendix B. Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and Security -- Appendix C. Publications and Presentations of RCSIP Participants -- Appendix D. The Social Medicine, Community Health, and Human Rights Curriculum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human form as a set of ; separate organs and systems in some stage of disease. Missing from their training is a holistic portrait of the patient as a person and as a member of a community. Yet a humanistic passion and desire to help people often are the attributes that compel a student toward a career in medicine. So what happens along the way to tarnish that idealism? Can a new approach to medical education make a difference? Doctors Serving People is just such a prescriptive. While a professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Edward J. Eckenfels helped initiate and direct a student-driven program in which student doctors worked in the poor, urban communities during medical school, voluntarily and without academic credit. In addition to their core curriculum and clinical rotations, students served the social and health needs of diverse and disadvantaged populations. Now more than ten years old, the program serves as an example for other medical schools throughout the country. Its story provides a working model of how to reform medical education in America.

Litigating rights : perspectives from domestic and international law / / edited by Grant Huscroft and Paul Rishworth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451435003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-4725-6249-6; 1-280-80813-6; 9786610808137; 1-84731-072-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.93/085
• Soggetti: Human rights - New Zealand; Human rights; State action (Civil rights); State action (Civil rights) - New Zealand; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pt. I. Judicial Review and Bills of Rights. ; 1. Rights, Bills of Rights, and the Role of Courts and Legislatures / Grant Huscroft. ; 2. The Bill of Rights: Confirmation of Extant Freedoms or Invitation to Judicial Creation? / Justice Antonin Scalia. ; 3. Rights, Paternalism, Constitutions and Judges / James Allan. ; 4. Judicial Review, Human Rights and Democracy / Andrew S. Butler. ; 5. Human Rights Review and the Public - Private Distinction / Murray Hunt -- ; Pt. II. Liberty and Equality. ; 6. Liberty, Equality and the New Establishment / Paul Rishworth. ; 7. Equality Rights in Canada: Judicial Usurpation or Missed Opportunities? / Ian Binnie. ; 8. Concepts of Equality in International Law / Hilary Charlesworth. ; 9. Liberty and Equality: Complementary, Not Competing, Constitutional Commitments / Nadine Strossen -- ; Pt. III. Group and Indigenous Rights. ; 10. Group Rights and Constitutional Rights / Tim Dare. ; 11. Taking Group Rights Carefully / Jeremy Waldron. ; 12. Should Maori Group Right be Part of a New Zealand Constitution? / Andrew Sharp. ; 13. Constitutionalising Maori / Eddie Durie -- ; Pt. IV. Internationalism. ; 14. The Rule of International Law? / Paul Rishworth. ; 15. The Impact of International Human Rights on Domestic Law / Elizabeth Evatt. ; 16. Intention and Effect: The Legal Status of the Final Views of the Human Rights Committee / Scott Davidson. ; 17. The UK's Human Rights Act 1998: An Early Assessment / Ian Leigh.
• Sommario/riassunto: "How are rights and freedoms best protected? The American model of constitutional protection and judicial review has been adopted in a number of countries, most recently in the United Kingdom. Increasingly, rights are the province of the judiciary. But how much judicial review do we need? How do we resolve conflicts between liberty, equality, and democracy? What guidance can the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee provide? These are some of the questions discussed in this collection of essays, which explores a range of contemporary issues in jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom."--Bloomsbury Publishing.