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A 5 page paper discussing this novel by Alexander Smith in terms of principles of ethics in general, but specifically those involving health care. The bottom-line message is that there are certain basic rights that individuals should be able to expect in their lives, but that are not always made available to them. When injustice occurs, the individual is to rise above it, condemning the unjust not with words or revenge, but with acts of kindness and understanding. The individual is to break the chain. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthCarEthGir.rtf
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It was fairly common in times past that mothers did not always live through childbirth. Before there was a medical profession or any particularly well versed in medical care,
death in childbirth was quite common in the US. It is far less common in any developed nation in the current day, but it still is a problem of
note. The problem as it exists in the US and other developed nations is nearly negligible when considered in light of its magnitude
in developing countries, particularly the poorest of those countries. Smith (2002) touches on the precarious position of African women in terms of access to health care and other features
of life. Cultural Differences Smith (2002) contrasts the culture of Botswana to that one collectively populated by white people, noting a difference in
the response of whites and the people of Botswana to others around them: Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people... Many
white people were like that, for some unfathomable reason; they did not seem to want to have people and were happy to be just themselves. How lonely they must be...
(p. 180). The message here is that the people of Botswana find being with people and interacting with them to be the natural
state of things, whereas whites tend to gravitate to isolationism and dependence on their own strength and resources. Smith (2002) visits the topics of poverty, abortion and AIDS in
the African culture to conclude that the issues belong to all of the people, rather than only to those individuals that they directly affect. Individual Responsibility
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