Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare To Count among the Living [Hardcover]

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. When seriously ill, what contributes to a sense of being truly cared for and respected? This compelling book explores healthcare inequalities by listening closely to Black and Latina women with breast cancer. It puts their stories into conversation with current healthcare statistics, sharp theological imagination, healthcare providers, and social ethics. Vigen contends that ethicists, healthcare providers, and scholars arrive at an adequate understanding of human dignity and personhood only when they take seriously the experiences and needs of those most vulnerable due to systemic inequalities.Foreword - Dwight N. Hopkins and Linda E. Thomas Acknowledgements Preface: A White Woman's Attempt to Listen Introduction U.S. Healthcare 101: What Everyone Needs to Know about How U.S. Inhabitants Are Treated (or Not) A Call to the Particular: Contributions from Theology and Qualitative Research Listening Resisting Death, Celebrating Life: Christian Social Ethics for Healthcare

'Listening is an art. Hearing is an act of justice-making. Aana Marie Vigen does both as she opens up the world of Black women and Latinas fighting for their lives and their dignity when seeking treatment for breast cancer in a healthcare delivery system riddled with disparities from access to treatment. More than a study in medical ethics, this is a work of passionate concern that all of us count among the living.' - Emilie M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale University Divinity School

'Aana Marie Vigen has written an extraordinary book, bringing together the disciplines of medical sociology, ethnography, and theology. By careful analysis she displays the inequities in healthcare in the United States related to gender and class. By telling the stories of African AmelCP