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Edited by Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis
224 pp, $50
Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9045-1

JAMA. 2009;301(20):2162-2163.

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Are ethics different in rural areas than in the big city? This collection of 12 essays provides a careful look at how ethical issues are perceived, noticed, ignored, or dealt with in rural health care. The contributors make clear that perceptions of ethics that come from urban and academic health care centers may need to be adjusted in dealing with the rural environment.

The book is divided into 3 sections. The first provides an overview of what is meant by rural and general ethical issues in rural health care. The second section consists of 3 essays by rural health practitioners. The third and final section examines specific ethical issues in the rural setting. The book provides an illuminating look at questions of culture, character, regulation, social justice, and organizational response. As a reader who has predominantly practiced medicine and taught ethics in urban medical environments, I found the book fascinating . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, Reviewer
Leischner Institute for Medical Education
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University Chicago
Maywood, Illinois
msheeh1@lumc.edu

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