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Condition critical : a new moral vision for health care / Richard D. Lamm and Robert H. Blank.

Title
Condition critical : a new moral vision for health care / Richard D. Lamm and Robert H. Blank.
Author
Lamm, Richard D.
Publication
Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2007.

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Blank, Robert H.
Description
188 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
Summary
Explains in laymen's terms why we need to control costs, come to terms with rationing in the near future, and take more individual responsibility for health. Lamm and Blank explain why "blank check" medicine-unchecked spending and use of technology-is bad for our collective health. [from publisher description].
Series Statement
Speaker's corner books
Uniform Title
Speaker's corner books.
Subject
  • Health Care Reform > trends
  • Health Care Rationing > trends
  • Ethical Relativism
  • Attitude to Health
  • Health Care Rationing > ethics
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical technology > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Health care rationing
  • Medical policy
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Health Policy
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-188).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A new moral vision -- Rationing medicine: making hard choices transparently -- Individual behavior and age as considerations in rationing -- Controlling medical technology -- Where do we go from here?.
ISBN
  • 9781555916121 (pbk.)
  • 1555916120 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2006101595
OCLC
77011591
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library