Health And The Good Society

Author : Ryan Meili
Publisher : Purich Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781895830675

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A Healthy Society by Ryan Meili Pdf

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient stories to explore health determinants and democratic reforms that could create a truly healthy society. By synthesizing diverse ideas into a plan for action based on the lived experiences of practitioners and patients, A Healthy Society breaks important ground in the renewal of politics toward the goal of better lives for all Canadians.

Author : James Gillett,Gavin J. Andrews,Mat Savelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Health
ISBN : 0199015279

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Health and Society by James Gillett,Gavin J. Andrews,Mat Savelli Pdf

Current and comprehensive, Health and Society brings together fourteen original chapters to provide a compelling interdisciplinary introduction to the field of health studies. Exploring the social, cultural, political, and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and health care, this textencourages students to examine how health and health care are socially and culturally constructed; what ideologies, principles, and powers underpin health and healthcare; and the future health challenges we face as a society.

Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400846177

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Finance and the Good Society by Robert J. Shiller Pdf

Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why we need to reclaim finance for the common good The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance—he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and increasing the general well-being. We need more financial innovation—not less—and finance should play a larger role in helping society achieve its goals. Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets. He explains how people in financial careers—from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator—can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. He describes how finance has historically contributed to the good of society through inventions such as insurance, mortgages, savings accounts, and pensions, and argues that we need to envision new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole. Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can once again harness the power of finance for the greater good.

Author : Robert Bellah,Richard Madsen,Steve Tipton,William Sullivan,Ann Swidler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307787927

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Good Society by Robert Bellah,Richard Madsen,Steve Tipton,William Sullivan,Ann Swidler Pdf

THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.

Author : Alan Cribb
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191529405

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Health and the Good Society by Alan Cribb Pdf

The goals of healthcare and health policy, and the health-related dilemmas facing policy makers, professionals, and citizens are extensively analysed and debated in a range of disciplines including public health, sociology, and applied philosophy. Health and the Good Society is the first full-length work that addresses these debates in a way that cuts across these disciplinary boundaries. Alan Cribb's core argument is that clinical ethics needs to be understood in the context of public health ethics. This entails healthcare ethics embracing 'the social dimension' of health in two overlapping senses: first, the various respects in which health experiences and outcomes are socially determined; and second, the ways in which health-related goods are better understood as social rather then purely individual goods. This broader approach to the Cthics of healthcare includes a concern with the social construction of both healthcare goods and the roles, ideals, and obligations of agents; that is to say it focuses upon the 'value field' of health-related action and not only upon the ethics of action within this value field. This groundbreaking book thus seeks to 'open up' the agenda of healthcare ethics both methodologically and substantively: it argues that population-oriented perspectives are central to all healthcare ethics, and that everybody has some share of responsibility for securing health-related goods including the good of greater health equality. One of its major conclusions is that the rather limited tradition of health education policy and practice needs a complete re-think.

Author : Alan Cribb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:551967946

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Health and the Good Society by Alan Cribb Pdf

Author : Alan Cribb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1131987017

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Health and the Good Society by Alan Cribb Pdf

Author : James A. Morone,Lawrence R. Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195170665

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair by James A. Morone,Lawrence R. Jacobs Pdf

Health policy experts chart the stark disparities in health & wealth in the United States. The authors explain how the inequities arise, why they persist, & what makes them worse.

Author : Hannah Bradby
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446258453

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Medicine, Health and Society by Hannah Bradby Pdf

Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society. Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society′s response to key issues such as race, gender and identity to explain the relationship between sociology, medicine and medical sociology. Each chapter includes an authoritative introduction to pertinent areas of debate, a clear summary of key issues and themes and dedicated bibliography. Chapters include: • social theory and medical sociology • health inequalities • bodies, pain and suffering • personal, local and global. Brimming with fresh interpretations and critical insights this book will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of medical sociology. This exciting text will be of interest to students of sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, and sociology of the body. Hannah Bradby has a visiting fellowship at the Department of Primary Care and Health Sciences, King′s College London. She is monograph series editor for the journal Sociology of Health and Illness and co-edits the multi-disciplinary journal Ethnicity and Health.

Author : Henrik Christoffersen,Michelle Beyeler,Reiner Eichenberger,Peter Nannestad,Martin Paldam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642372384

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The Good Society by Henrik Christoffersen,Michelle Beyeler,Reiner Eichenberger,Peter Nannestad,Martin Paldam Pdf

Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.

Author : Patch Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781620551127

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Gesundheit! by Patch Adams Pdf

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine • Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system • Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that will be open to anyone in the world free of charge. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Not for those who know and work with Patch. Whether it means putting on a red clown nose for sick children or taking a disturbed patient outside to roll down a hill with him, Adams does whatever is necessary to help heal. In his frequent lectures at medical schools and international conferences, Adams's irrepressible energy cuts through the businesslike facade of the medical industry to address the caring relationship between doctor and patient that is at the heart of true medicine. All author royalties are used to fund The Gesundheit Institute, a 40-bed free hospital in West Virginia. Adams's positive vision and plan for the future is an inspiration for those concerned with the inaccessibility of affordable, quality health care. Today's high-tech medicine has become too costly, impersonal, and grim. In his frequent lectures to colleges, churches, community groups, medical schools, and conferences, Patch shows how healing can be a loving, creative, humorous human exchange--not a business transaction.

Author : Barry Knight
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447340607

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Rethinking Poverty by Barry Knight Pdf

This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.

Author : Menno Boldt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442643727

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A Quest for Humanity by Menno Boldt Pdf

In A Quest for Humanity, Menno Boldt presents a persuasive new framework for achieving a human social order in the global age. Boldt explores the concept of 'the good society' as a world in which every person can realize their potential for humanity through liberty, social justice, and equal human dignity. A Quest for Humanity innovatively positions globalization as a deterministic phenomenon of expanding interdependence and shared knowledge — resulting in ever-larger economic and political jurisdictions, but also creating social and psychological links between peoples across the world. Boldt challenges mainstream certainty that Western democracy and constitutional human rights are the exemplary doctrines for the global good society. With a fresh vision designed to inspire a universal acknowledgement of human dignity, A Quest for Humanity powerfully affirms the value of each human being.

Author : Lloyd J. Dumas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838676292

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Building the Good Society by Lloyd J. Dumas Pdf

In six interconnected essays, leading political economist Lloyd J. Dumas presents a pragmatic alternative view of a society that is capable of maximizing individual freedoms and producing sustained prosperity while preserving socially responsible behavior.

Author : Ryan Meili
Publisher : Purich Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774880282

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A Healthy Society by Ryan Meili Pdf

A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health, such as income, education, employment, housing, and environment. This updated edition explores the positive steps that have been taken since publication of the first edition, and includes expanded discussions of basic income, poverty reduction strategies, innovative housing polices, carbon pricing, and the role of health professionals in working for health equity. This book breaks important ground, showing us how a focus on health can change Canadian politics for the better.