title: The moral failure of the patriarchy.
abstract: The present health care system operates within a larger structure that now has to be openly acknowledged as patriarchal: Caring is viewed as women's work, which is not valued and which is considered less important than the work of men. The moral failure of this worldview is evident in such health care crises as care of the homelessness and those with AIDS, and dramatic rises in rates of infant mortality among the poor. This failure demands a health care revolution--a revolution in the sense that society must give up that which no longer works.
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Caring, University of Colorado, Denver.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D009732:Nursing Care; D011287:Prejudice; D012737:Sex Factors; D012940:Social Problems