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Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-11299-6

ISBN: 978-0-230-11363-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Feb 17, 2016

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Introduction

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 1 –16

[Black feminist essayist and poet, Audre Lorde, wrote the above words early in her battle with breast cancer.1 She understood that honoring human life involves more than the tallying of statistics. Everyone counts, not simply in the sense of arriving at an accurate numerical total, but rather in...
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U.S. Healthcare 101: What Everyone Ought to Know about How U.S. Inhabitants are Treated (or Not)

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 17 –62

[Let’s be frank: News stories about healthcare can be tedious. This may sound like a strange statement to make near the beginning of a book dedicated to exploring healthcare quality disparities. Yet it is the truth. The endless parade of numbers, factoids, and opinions—the mind-boggling figures...
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A Call to the Particular: Contributions from Theology and Qualitative Research

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 63 –110

[To know and experience in one’s own bones that one’s worth is accurately seen and fully respected by others amounts to basic sustenance for human living. Akin to air, food, and water that expand the belly and breast, such embodied knowledge replenishes ephemeral storehouses that perpetually ache...
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Listening

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 111 –170

[After being submerged in theological, sociological, and qualitative methodological texts for so long, it was refreshing to come up for air. Conversations with people became the oxygen I needed. Rather than reading and writing, I listened. This shift in my learning method was essential for my...
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Resisting Death, Celebrating Life: Christian Social Ethics for Healthcare

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 171 –209

[There are many kinds of death; the physical cessation of life is only one among them. It is quite possible to breathe and move and yet to feel dead inside. Sometimes people feel emotionally or spiritually deadened by strife. Human hearts wither without love and recognition. A kind of death...
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Concluding Words for Beginning: (Re)Creating the World through Scholarship

Vigen, Aana Marie

Pages: 211 –216

[There are three methodological insights I hope this book will contribute to the way in which scholarship is envisioned and created: First, qualitative methods such as those found in ethnography are helpful and needed tools for grounding and evaluating theological and ethical claims. How does a...

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