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Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care » Read Now
by Paul T. Menzel. 234 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In one form or another, health care now gets rationed. Not everything beneficial is done for every patient. For the individual the consequences are sometimes tragic. Rationing decisions thus raise a classic dilemma: how can we treat with dignity and genuine respect the person who gets short-changed...
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In one form or another, health care now gets rationed. Not everything beneficial is done for every patient. For the individual the consequences are sometimes tragic. Rationing decisions thus raise a classic dilemma: how can we treat with dignity and genuine respect the person who gets short-changed by an efficient policy that seems best overall? Strong Medicine argues that we can, if those policies represent the hard trade-off preferences of patients controlling resources for their larger lives. Rationing is still strong medicine to swallow, but then it becomes what patients as well as the doctor ordered. Menzel develops this central idea and applies it to major issues of health policy and economics: the notion of pricing life, the long-run cost of prevention, measuring quality of life, imperiled newborns, adequate care for the poor, containing costs by market competition, malpractice suits, procuring organs for transplant, and dying expensively in old age. He provides a hard-hitting, critical philosophical discussion of these issues, in non-technical language accessible to a wide range of readers interested in policy questions the book takes up. The issues are fascinating, the arguments are careful, and the results often surprising.
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Rationing Medicine » Read Now
by Robert H. Blank. 290 pgs.

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The Social Economics of Health Care (Chap. 3 "Social Choice as the Synthesis of Incommensurable Claims: The Case of Health Care Rationing) » Read Now
by John B. Davis. 290 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

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 Davies has gathered together an impressive range of contributors to explore this phenomenon.
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Health Care Politics and Policy in America ("Negotiating Prices" begins on p. 149) » Read Now
by Kant Patel, Mark E. Rushefsky. 292 pgs.

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Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America ("Pushing Health Care Rationing" begins on p. 143) » Read Now
by Wesley J. Smith. 285 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in a car accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He...
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When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in a car accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in this groundbreaking. Smith believes that American medicine "is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenceless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die." Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how 'bioethicists' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled.
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The Price of Life: The Future of American Health Care (Chap. 4 "Avoiding Hard Choices: The Need for Rationing") » Read Now
by Robert H. Blank. 220 pgs.

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How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive...
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How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive redistribution of social and public health resources to the poor and elderly; at the same time, he describes sanctions that would encourage individuals to be more careful about their own health, and limit or change destructive behavior.
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The Private Regulation of American Health Care ("Rationing Health Care" begins on p. 120) » Read Now
by Betty Leyerle. 230 pgs.

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Health Policy in the Market State (Chap. 5 "Health Care Funding and Rationing Health Care") » Read Now
by Linda Hancock. 345 pgs.

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"Introduces the major issues in health policy in Australia, setting them in the broader public policy context."
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Health Care Reform or Health Care Rationing? A Comparative Study, in Canadian-American Public Policy » Read Now
by Joa Pric Boase. 48 pgs.

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Managed Care Organizations and the Rationing Problem, in The Hastings Center Report » Read Now
by Mary Ann Baily. 9 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Aggregation Problem, in The Hastings Center Report » Read Now
by Eric Rakowski. 4 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics » Read Now
by E. Haavi Morreim. 184 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In this volume, Dick Bryan examines the influence of the international economy upon domestic accumulation, describing the process as the expression of the contradiction between the international scope of accumulation and the national scope of its regulation. Developing a theoretical framework for...
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In this volume, Dick Bryan examines the influence of the international economy upon domestic accumulation, describing the process as the expression of the contradiction between the international scope of accumulation and the national scope of its regulation. Developing a theoretical framework for understanding the contradiction within Marxist political economy, he addresses the theory of value on an international scale, as well as theories of global restructuring and crisis. These issues are then applied to those domestic policies - such as monetary policy and balance of payments - that interrelate with the international economy. The author argues that the conventional theories informing these approaches have consistently failed to recognize the contradictions in international accumulation. National economic management has, as a result, reverted to explicit class politics, attempting to solve domestic economic problems by targeting the living standards of labor.
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Justice and Managed Care, in The Hastings Center Report » Read Now
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel. 9 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library