Articles

Linda Morrison brings the voices and issues of a little-known, complex social movement to the attention of sociologists, mental health professionals, and the... 
Ex-mental patients | Antipsychiatry | Civil rights | Social aspects | Mental illness | Mentally ill | Social conditions | Psychiatry | Mental Health | Sociology & Social Policy | Web site development

While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen... 
Health insurance | Government policy | United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health care reform | Right to health | Health Care Reform | Social Justice | Civil Rights | Social Security | United States | Sociology | Political Science

Social work Codes of Ethics of professional organizations around the world appeal to the concept of people having 'rights' that social workers need to respect... 
Social Work | Human rights | Internationality | Social service | Professional ethics | Practice | Social workers | Vulnerable Populations | Moral and ethical aspects | Social Work and Social Policy | Social Justice | Community Social Work | Social Work Practice | Human Rights

Medical policy

Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry,... 
Sociology, Social Studies | Antipsychiatry | Health & Illness | Mental Health | Great Britain | Social movements | Mental health services | Social aspects | History | Social psychiatry

"Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that... 
Bioethics | Intersexuality | Moral and ethical aspects | Treatment

"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main... 
Medical policy | Social medicine | Equality | Social justice | Social aspects | Health services accessibility | Health aspects | Philosophy | Political Science | Health Sciences

Bioethics | Dignity | Catholic Church | Religious aspects | Respect for persons | Medical ethics

"In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a... 
Drugs | Prices | Prescription pricing | Drug accessibility | Pharmaceutical policy | Health care reform | Pharmaceutical industry | Drug accessibility-United States | Prescription pricing-United States | Pharmaceutical industry-United States | Health care reform-United States | Drugs-Prices-United States | Pharmaceutical policy-United States

"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a... 
Autism spectrum disorders | Autism | People with disabilities | History | Autistic Disorder

Patients | Legal status, laws, etc | Medical laws and legislation

Dignity | Delivery of Health Care | Human Rights | Medical care | Value of Life | Medical ethics | Personhood | Right to health

Terminal care | Death | Moral and ethical aspects | Law and legislation | Medical ethics

This book deals with the following controversial issues in Jewish Law: abortion, assisted reproduction, genetics, the obligation to heal, patient autonomy,... 
Bioethics | Judaism | Religious aspects | Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law) | medical and healthcare law | Medical Resources | Terminally Ill | Assisted Reproduction | Death | Genetics | Organ Donations | Obligation To Heal | Patient Autonomy | Abortion | Jewish Law

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale... 
Collection and preservation | Social surveys | Methodology | Biological specimens

"Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later... 
Social Change | History, 21st Century | Patient Rights | History, 20th Century | Chronic diseases | History, 19th Century | history | Patient Advocacy | Social aspects | Chronic Disease | Chronically ill

“Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem.” Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired,... 
Nursing & Ancillary Services | Nursing home patients | Religion | Law | Physical & Sexual Abuse in Adults | Gerontology/Ageing | Prevention | Nursing homes | Tort liability of nursing homes | United States | Nursing home care | Older people | Abuse of | Corrupt practices | Theft

"This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, dealing with the right to health. It is part... 
Organisation des Nations unies | Droits | Patient Rights | Droit à la santé | United Nations | Enfants | Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989 November 20) | Child Advocacy | International Cooperation | Santé | Right to health | Convention on the Rights of the Child | Conventions internationales | Child Welfare | Droit international | Convention des Nations Unies sur les droits de l'enfant | Droits de l'enfant | United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child | Child Health Services | Commentaires | Children's rights | Children (International law) | Child | Committee on the Rights of the Child | 1989