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For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.
Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davis has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena.
"Eleven papers examine alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics, resistance to market-based reform of health care systems, and social issues associated with health care."
-Journal of Economic Literature Spet 2002
| List of tables | p. vii |
| List of figures | p. ix |
| List of contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics | p. 7 |
| Should consumer choice be encouraged in health care? | p. 9 |
| Communitarianism and health economics | p. 40 |
| Social choice as the synthesis of incommensurable claims: the case of health care rationing | p. 61 |
| Accounting for fairness and efficiency in health economics | p. 94 |
| Resistance to market-based reform of health care systems | p. 111 |
| The National Health Service, the 'internal market' and trust | p. 113 |
| Proletarianizing the professionals: the populist assault on discretionary autonomy | p. 141 |
| Canada: more state, more market? | p. 172 |
| Issues surrounding health care and aging | p. 193 |
| Age, health and medical expenditure | p. 195 |
| The societal costs and implications of using high cost critical care resources for the elderly | p. 219 |
| Medicare HMOs: the promise and the reality | p. 240 |
| The challenge of technology | p. 255 |
| Safeguarding genetic information: privacy, confidentiality, and security? | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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ISBN: 9780415251624
ISBN-10: 0415251621
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 26th June 2001
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.444
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