By Ann Folwell Stanford
ISBN-10: 080782805X
ISBN-13: 9780807828052
ISBN-10: 0807854808
ISBN-13: 9780807854808
ISBN-10: 0807862258
ISBN-13: 9780807862254
During this multidisciplinary learn, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written through U.S. girls of colour to suggest a rethinking of recent clinical perform, arguing that private future health and social justice are inextricably associated. Drawing on feminist ethics to discover the paintings of 11 novelists, Stanford demanding situations medication to place itself extra deeply in the groups it serves, particularly the terrible and marginalized. besides the fact that, she additionally argues that drugs needs to realize its limits and sign up for forces with the nonmedical neighborhood within the fight for social justice. In literary representations of actual and emotional states of disorder and overall healthiness, Stanford identifies concerns regarding public wellbeing and fitness, scientific ethics, institutionalized racism, women's well-being, household abuse, and social justice which are very important to discussions approximately the way to increase healthiness and wellbeing and fitness care. She argues that during both direct or oblique methods, the 11 novelists thought of push us to determine wellbeing and fitness not just as anyone but additionally as a fancy community of person, institutional, and social adjustments within which health could be a probability for almost all instead of a privileged few.The novelists whose works are mentioned are Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Bebe Moore Campbell, Sapphire, Ana Castillo, and Octavia Butler.
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These strategies have to do with interpersonal communication, the kind of inquiry and listening that helps patients make the connection between their personal troubles and social troubles. However, physicians who seriously inquire into the context and social nature of a patient’s illness run the risk of being confronted with devastating realities. Surely referral is an important model in helping the physician help her or his patient. A more important question, however, is how medicine might both use and go beyond the paradigm of referral and toward a more intentional model whereby medicine works in community and sees itself as part of a broader network for social change and the common good.
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