Artículo
Not the usual suspects: adressing layers of vulnerability
Fecha de publicación:
07/2013
Editorial:
Wiley
Revista:
Bioethics
ISSN:
0269-9702
e-ISSN:
1467-8519
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
This paper challenges the traditional account of vulnerability in healthcare which conceptualizes vulnerability as a list of identifiable subpopulations. This list of "usual suspects", focusing on groups from lower resource settings, is a narrow account of vulnerability. In this article we argue that in certain circumstances middle-class individuals can be also rendered vulnerable. We propose a relational and layered account of vulnerability and explore this concept using the case study of cord blood (CB) banking. <br />In the first section, two different approaches to "vulnerability" are contrasted: categorical versus layered. In the second section, we describe CB banking and present a case study of CB banking in Argentina. We examine the types of pressure that middle-class pregnant women feel when considering CB collection and storage. In section three, we use the CB banking case study to critique the categorical approach to vulnerability: this model is unable to account for the ways in which these women are vulnerable. A layered account of vulnerability identifies several ways in which middle-class women are vulnerable. Finally, by utilizing the layered approach, this paper suggests how public health policies could be designed to overcome vulnerabilities. <br />
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Luna, Florencia; Vanderpoel, Sheryl; Not the usual suspects: adressing layers of vulnerability; Wiley; Bioethics; 27; 6; 7-2013; 325-332
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