Repression, health care and ethics under apartheid.

Repression, health care and ethics under apartheid.

Over the past twenty-five years torture by state security forces has escalated in South Africa. The scale of this abuse has impacted on the health professions, both medical and psychological, which have unavoidably been exposed to the casualties. Individual doctors and psychologists and the country's professional bodies have been forced to confront crucial ethical choices. This paper is about s...

Health care ethics and casuistry.

Ethics and health care 'underfunding'.

There are continual “crises” in health care systems worldwide as producer and patient groups unify and decry the “underfunding” of health care. Sometimes this cacophony is the self interest of profit seeking producers and often it is advocacy of unproven therapies. Such pressure is to be expected and needs careful management by explicit rationing criteria which determine who gets access to what...

Health care ethics.

HCE 550 Topics in Bioethics (3 credits) The course is an analysis of some of the important topics in bioethics. Students will familiarize themselves with the ethical questions surrounding major topics in contemporary bioethics. The course will focus on one or more of the following topics: medical research with human subjects, the new genetic medicine, social justice and the delivery of healthca...

Psychology And Health After Apartheid

As part of a growing literature on the histories of psychology in the Global South, this article outlines some historical developments in South African psychologists’ engagement with the problem of “health.” Alongside movements to formalize and professionalize a U.S.-style “health psychology” in the 1990s, there arose a parallel, eclectic, and more or less critical psychology that contested the...