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Strong Medicine

The Ethical Rationing of Health Care

9780195057102
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In one form or another, health care is now being rationed; not every patient receives all that is possibly beneficial for him - sometimes with tragic consequences. Decisions to ration raise a classic dilemma:: how can we treat an individual with dignity and genuine respect when he is being short-changed by an efficient policy that seems best overall? Strong Medicine argues that we can respect the individual, 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, imperilled 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 ofreaders.
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OUP USA
88353
9780195057102
9780195057102

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Publication date
1990
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
250
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
Weight (g)
538
  • Prologue; Could an economist take the Hippocratic oath?; May we presume your consent to risk?; Consent and the pricing of life; The costs of lifesaving:: What if smoking saves money?; Measuring quality of life; The innocence of birth; The poor and the puzzle of equality; Real competition; Malpractice and the costs of complaint; Raising transplants; The duty to die cheaply; References; Index
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