Research Catalog

Title

Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.

Author

Ubel, Peter A.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1999.

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Description

xix, 208 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Basic bioethics

Uniform Title

Basic bioethics.

Subjects

• Health Care Rationing
• Decision Making
• Patient Selection
• Health care rationing
• Medical care > Cost effectiveness
• Health Care Costs
• Cost-Benefit Analysis

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Cost-Effectiveness and the Controversial Necessity of Health Care Rationing. 1. Rationing According to Cost-Effectiveness: Explicit, Quantifiable, and Unacceptable? 2. The Politics of Defining Health Care Rationing. 3. The Necessity of Rationing Health Care. 4. The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways Appropriate for Making Rationing Decisions. 5. How Do People Want to Ration Health Care? Balancing Cost-Effectiveness and Fairness -- II. Cost-Effectiveness and Bedside Rationing: Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? 6. The Case Against Bedside Rationing. 7. Recognizing Bedside Rationing. 8. Linguistic Confusion about Bedside Rationing. 9. The Unbearable Rightness of Bedside Rationing -- III. The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care Rationing. 10. Future Possibilities for Improving How Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Incorporates Public Rationing Preferences. 11. The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care Rationing.

ISBN

0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99020664

OCLC

• 40943405
• ocm40943405
• SCSB-3901471

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries