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The social economics of health care
- Title
- The social economics of health care / edited by John B. Davis.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Davis, John Bryan.
- Description
- xiv, 290 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Health care management has been dominated by the ideology of mainstream economics. A more socially responsible approach is emerging due to issues such as privacy and genetic testing. This work explores these phenomena.
- Series Statement
- Advances in social economics
- Uniform Title
- Advances in social economics
- Subject
- Medical economics
- Medical ethics
- Social medicine
- Medical policy > Social aspects
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- Medical economics
- Medical ethics
- Medical policy > Social aspects
- Social medicine
- Gezondheidszorg
- Marktmechanisme
- Economische aspecten
- Sociale aspecten
- Overheidsbeleid
- Delivery of Health Care > economics
- Economics, Medical
- Health Policy
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Ethics, Medical
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics. Should consumer choice be encouraged in health care? / Thomas Rice -- Communitarianism and health economics / Gavin Mooney -- Social choice as the synthesis of incommensurable claims: the case of health care rationing / Paul Anand -- Accounting for fairness and efficiency in health economics / Joshua Cohen and Peter Ubel. Resistance to market-based reform of health care systems. The National Health Service, the 'internal market' and trust / Robert McMaster -- Proletarianizing the professionals: the populist assault on discretionary autonomy / Michael Keaney -- Canada: more state, more market? / Terrence Sullivan and Cameron Mustard. Issues surrounding health care and aging. Age, health and medical expenditure / William A. Jackson -- The societal costs and implications of using high cost critical care resources for the elderly / Diane M. Dewar -- Medicare HMOs: the promise and the reality / Rose M. Rubin and Shelley White-Means. The challenge of technology. Safeguarding genetic information: privacy, confidentiality, and security? / Robert F. Rizzo.
- ISBN
- 0415207657
- 9780415207652
- 0415251621
- 9780415251624
- 9780203459898
- 020345989X
- LCCN
- 00051778
- 9780415251624
- OCLC
- ocm45283240
- 45283240
- SCSB-1282037
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library