Medicine, religion, and the body [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785668003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-95116-5; 9786612951169; 90-474-4400-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Collana: International studies in religion and society, , 1573-4293 ; ; v. 11
• Altri autori (Persone): ColemanElizabeth Burns <1961->; WhiteKevin, Ph. D.
• Disciplina: 201/.661
• Soggetti: Medicine - Religious aspects; Human body - Religious aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Many of the chapters in this volume were presented at the conference 'Negotiating the Sacred : Medicine, Religion and The Body' held in the Centre for Cross Cultural Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra in 2006."--P.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Section 1. The social and spiritual body -- Section 2. Negotiating medicine, healing and religious belief -- pt. 3. Virtue, health and the state.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the ways in which the body is sacred in Western medicine, as well as how this idea is played out in questions of life and death, of the autopsy and of the meanings attributed to illnesses and disease. Ritual and religious modifications to, and limitations on what may be done to the body raise cross cultural issues of great complexity – philosophically and theologically, as well as sociologically - within medicine and for health care practitioners, but also, as a matter of primary concern for the patient. The book explores the ways in which medicine organises the moral and the immoral, the sacred and the profane; how it mediates cultural concepts of the sacred – of the body, of blood and of life and death.

The best-laid plans [[electronic resource] ] : health care's problems and prospects / / Lawrie McFarlane and Carlos Prado

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783503403321
• Autore: McFarlane Lawrie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, N.Y., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-86046-1; 9786612860461; 0-7735-7021-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PradoC. G
• Disciplina: 362.1/0971
• Soggetti: Health care reform - Canada; Medical care - Canada; Santé, Services de - Réforme - Canada; Soins médicaux - Canada
• 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 (p. [187]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Some Theory -- Health Care and Our Theoretical Base -- Health Care and Power -- Health Care and Chaos -- Chaos, Power, and Ethics -- The Practice -- The Origins and Pathology of Crisis -- The Denial of Crisis -- The Orthodox Approach to Health Care Reform -- How Medicare Works -- The Right to Health Care: The Legal Context -- The Right to Health Care: The Historical Context -- The Privatization Alternative -- A New Approach to Managing Health Services in Canada -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Is health care like the BC Ferry Service or Ontario Hydro? Lawrie McFarlane and Carlos Prado argue that health care is being treated as though it were just another public utility and that the present crisis in medicare has developed precisely because of this approach. In The Best-Laid Plans they contend that what health care needs is less centralized management and the restoration of empowerment to both patients and care-givers. Contrary to recent attempts to reform health care, which have been based on the assumption that all health care needs is better management, McFarlane and Prado contend that what ; separates health care from other public services is the complex relationships between the service providers (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.) and their clients (patients), and the tendency for these relationships to evolve in unpredictable ways. Using Michael Foucault's "genealogical" and "ethical" analyses to explain the unpredictable nature of interactions in a high stakes, emotionally loaded environment, the authors demonstrate how planning, administration, delivery, and reform of a basic public service have gone wrong.