Rethinking Rural Health Ethics

Christy Simpson is Head and an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the coordinator for the Ethics Collaborations with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology.  Her primary responsibilities include ethics education and capacity-building, policy development and review, and support for clinical and organisational ethics consultations.  Fiona McDonald is a Senior Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University, Canada.  She teaches health law, health ethics and health management at the under-graduate and graduate levels.  Her research interests are focused on the governance ofhealth systems.

• Introduction.- PART 1: Deconstructing rural health ethics.- Rural health ethics: Where have we been and what’s missing?.- The deficit perspective.- The idealisation of rural life and rural health care.- PART II: Reconstructing rural health ethics.- The value of place.- The value of community.- The value of relationships.- Taking it to the next (meso) level: organisational ethics.- The big picture: ethics, health policy, health systems and rural health care.- Rethinking rural health ethics.- Index.