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The Catholic Church and U.S. Health Care Reform
Author(s) -
Angrosino Michael V.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical anthropology quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.855
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1548-1387
pISSN - 0745-5194
DOI - 10.1525/maq.1996.10.1.02a00010
Subject(s) - health care , position (finance) , catholic social teaching , sociology , resource (disambiguation) , field (mathematics) , political science , public administration , law , economics , computer network , mathematics , finance , computer science , pure mathematics
The Catholic Church is the largest (and arguably the best organized) single denomination in the United States, and it has extensive holdings in the health care field. It therefore has a material stake in the current debate over health care reform, as well as a moral interest in a question touching on the ethics of resource distribution. The position of the church on health care is analyzed as a case study of how organized religion interacts with and attempts to influence social policy in a pluralistic society.