Healthcare

Healthcare is a topic that speaks broadly to the values and institutions that any society sets in place for the administration and care of its population. Issues raised in this area range across a wide spectrum of discussions that include reflection on the common good, definitions of health, the ends of medicine, the Judeo-Christian Hippocratic tradition, economics, and paradigms of healthcare allocation and management, along with systems of administration.

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

• Michael Cox, “Metaphors in Medicine: Toward Transformation in Care”
• Lauris Kaldjian, “Practicing Medicine and Ethics”
• Susan Haack, “The Promises and Perils of Technological Progress in Healthcare”
• Ferdinand Yates, Jr., “Go Home, Someone Else Will Do It”
• Heather Zeiger, “Big Data in Medicine”
• Sharon Falkenheimer, “The Adequacy of Preventive Health Care: Does the Health Care Provider Matter?”
• Teresa Collett, “Protecting the Healthcare Provider’s Right of Conscience”