Rethinking rural health ethics - Volume 72

This work challenges readers to rethink rural health ethics.

Traditional approaches to health ethics are often urban-centric, making implicit assumptions about how values and norms apply in health care practice, and as such may fail to take into account the complexity, depth, richness, and diversity of the rural context.

There are ethically relevant differences between rural health practice and rural health services delivery and urban practice and delivery that go beyond the stereotypes associated with rural life and rural health services.

The authors examine key values in the rural context that have not been fully explored or taken into account when we examine health ethics issues, including the values of community and place, and a need to 'revalue' relationships.