Kant Patel, Mark E Rushefsky

Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care. Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies takes on this challenging array of issues, where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of the national-level health care system: the right to die, rationing of care, organ transplants, experiments with human embryos, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, and other ethical dilemmas. Chapters on a patient's bill of rights, and on medical education and physician training, link the book to policy issues of direct concern to the public and practitioners. Throughout the book, the authors place critical questions in their political, legal, social, economic, and ethical context. Each chapter ends with discussion points, and a multimedia bibliography directs readers to relevant films, documentaries, and case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 160mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780765606457
• ISBN-10: 0765606453
• Artikelnr.: 21906877

Autorenporträt

Kant Patel, Mark E. Rushefsky

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Technology, Values, and Health Care Policy in the New Millennium
Chapter 2 The Right to Die
Chapter 3 Organ Transplants
Chapter 4 Genetic Research and Health Care
Chapter 5 Privacy of Medical Records and Confidentiality
Chapter 6 Health Care Rationing
Chapter 7 Patients' Bill of Rights
Chapter 8 Medical Education and Physician Training
Chapter 9 Conclusion