All Care is Health Care: How Healthcare-Legal Partnerships Are Challenging the Biomedical Paradigm
2018-05-05
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All Care is Health Care: How Healthcare-Legal Partnerships Are Challenging the Biomedical Paradigm
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This project comprehensively examines how healthcare-legal partnerships (HLPs) are challenging the biomedical paradigm. I explore this in clinics through rich semi-structured interviews with HLP advocates (social workers, healthcare administrators, nurses, lawyers, and physicians) and focus groups with patients. In this paper, I will highlight the ways in which on-site legal services in clinics help in breaking down barriers that limit access to care and thus reduce anxiety and stress in patients. I will also argue that while helpful, HLPs continue to operate under a neoliberal biomedical model-based health care system and hence, do not provide a comprehensive solution to the complex health needs of patients. Health issues are not just legal issues; they are social issues that need to be addressed using a structural care approach.
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Bhatnagar, Prashasti. (2018). All Care is Health Care: How Healthcare-Legal Partnerships Are Challenging the Biomedical Paradigm. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/201930.
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