The language of rights is increasingly used to regulate access to health care and allocation of resources in the health care field. The right to health has been grounded on different theories of justice. Scholars within the liberal tradition have grounded the right to health care on Rawls's two principles of justice. Thus, the right to health care has been justified as being one of the basic liberties, as enabling equality of opportunity, or as being justified by the maximin principle. In this article, Filc analyzes—from a radical egalitarian standpoint—the limitations of the different attempts to ground an equal right to health on Rawls's theory of justice and offers a first approximation to a radical egalitarian formulation of the right to health.
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Immigrant Sanctuary or Danger
Health Care and Hospitals in the United States
Beatrix Hoffman
. In response to this and other cases in which undocumented immigrants were detained while seeking health care, two physicians and an ACLU attorney published a piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association calling for “sanctuary hospitals
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 62–75 (14 total)
Saudi Patients and Health Care Providers
Divergent Perceptions of Illnesses and Their Symptoms
Mohamed Harakati, Faissal Shaheen, Hani Tamim, Saadi Taher, Adel Al. Qublan, and Abdulla Al Sayyari
This cross-sectional survey study analyses the degree of concordance between Saudi patients and their nurses and physicians in four areas: (1) perceived causation of diseases and drivers of cure, (2) symptom ranking and perception, (3) views on social habits and traditional medicine, and (4) assessment of health care providers' empathy. The doctors and nurses were asked to predict their patients' responses to the survey. Significant divergence was found between the patients' responses and the health care providers' predictions. Cultural and background differences between the two groups, as well as a large educational gap, might account for this disparity. Such discordance could conceivably lead to wrong diagnoses being made, due to the different levels of importance that patients and doctors accord to symptoms.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–46 (12 total)
Publicly Funded Abortion and Marginalised People's Experiences in Catalunya
A Longitudinal, Comparative Study
Bayla Ostrach
and unique effects in Catalunya, where migrants have greater access to public health care ( Ostrach 2017 ). The 2010 reforms expanded abortion rights for any reason in the first trimester (up to 14 weeks from the last menstrual period, by this law
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 24–34 (11 total)
Andrew Ward
The nature of health care, a multifaceted system of reimbursements, subsidies, levels of care, and trade-offs between economics, values and social goods, makes it both a problematic area of policy and critical to the well-being of society. In the United States, provision of health care is not a right as in some countries, but occurs as a function of a complex set of cross-subsidized mechanisms that, according to some analysts, exclude from coverage those who may be in the most need of it. Accordingly, this article examines some of the issues involved in making decisions on how to justly expand health insurance.
High-tech Romania?
Commoditisation and Informal Relations in the Managerialist Informatisation of the Romanian Health-Care System
Sabina Stan and Valentin-Veron Toma
While informatisation has officially been hailed as a major component of the modernisation of the Romanian health-care system, this paper, based on ethnographic research in Romanian hospitals, shows that it has been mostly geared towards managerialist goals of administrative control and cost containment. Paradoxically, informal relations, which were supposed to be suppressed as a result of both informatisation and managerialist marketisation, continue to thrive in the Romanian health-care system.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 56–71 (15 total)
Images of Care, Boundaries of the State
Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care
Rosie Read
This article examines how boundaries of the state are negotiated and projected in Czech health care volunteering. Hospital regimes and the professional care provided by doctors and nurses are widely imagined as a domain of intensified state authority, a legacy of state socialism. I explore attempts by NGO actors, hospitals, and local government officials involved in three Czech volunteer programs to create alternative, non-medicalized forms of patient care as civil society, thereby reproducing the boundary between state and non-state that characterized civil society discourses of the 1990s in the region. Yet unlike those discourses and the anthropological analyses they have informed, this process of boundary making does not constitute the state and civil society as inevitably antagonistic or competitive entities.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 90–106 (17 total)
‘What Makes It Nice Is Also What Makes It Difficult’
How the Introduction of an Interactive Patient Room Challenges Appropriation of Technology Among Health Care Workers
Birgitte Folmann and Regine Grytnes
challenge, as it necessarily involves comprehensive changes in the clinical practice and ways of working ( Dahler et al. 2018 ; Potthoff et al. 2019 ). In this article, we aim to explore health care workers’ perceptions and reluctance to use a new
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–43 (9 total)
Social Capital and Community Pharmacy
A Critical Review
Paul Bissell
Although community pharmacists have a well-established and culturally acknowledged role supplying medicines, the reconfiguration of occupational boundaries within healthcare in England and other countries (Charles-Jones et al. 2003) has resulted in increasing policy and professional interest in developing the role of the pharmacist in a number of areas. Whilst many of the new roles for pharmacists involve the sale or supply of medicines by different means (for example, via patient group directions or pharmacist prescribing) and are mainly aimed at improving access to medicines, other suggested developments shift community pharmacy practice into rather more unfamiliar territory. In particular, there is now increasing interest in the role that pharmacists might play in public health, and the term ‘pharmaceutical public health’ is increasingly heard within practice research circles and pharmacy policy more generally, both in the UK and abroad (Boorman et al. 2001; Anderson et al. 2003; Jones et al. 2004). For example, the Department of Health in England has devoted considerable attention to the idea of pharmaceutical public health.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2006
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 109–119 (11 total)
ASTRID DE HONTHEIM
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2012
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 217–219 (2 total)