Foreword - Dwight N. Hopkins and Linda E. Thomas Acknowledgements Preface: A White Woman's Attempt to Listen Introduction U.S. Healthcare 101: What Everyone Needs to Know about How U.S. Inhabitants Are Treated (or Not) A Call to the Particular: Contributions from Theology and Qualitative Research Listening Resisting Death, Celebrating Life: Christian Social Ethics for Healthcare

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. When seriously ill, what contributes to a sense of being truly cared for and respected? This compelling book explores healthcare inequalities by listening closely to Black and Latina women with breast cancer. It puts their stories into conversation with current healthcare statistics, sharp theological imagination, healthcare providers, and social ethics. Vigen contends that ethicists, healthcare providers, and scholars arrive at an adequate understanding of human dignity and personhood only when they take seriously the experiences and needs of those most vulnerable due to systemic inequalities.

Aana Marie Vigen explores healthcare disparities, the commodification of life, ethnographic methods in medical ethics, and notions of a "a good death" in her scholarship and teaching. Currently Assistant Professor of Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, she earned her Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 2004.