Sharon R Kaufman

Ordinary Medicine

Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line

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Produktbeschreibung

Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359029
• ISBN-10: 0822359022
• Artikelnr.: 41374474

Autorenporträt

Sharon R. Kaufman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Diagnosing Twenty-First-Century Health Care 1
Part I: The Quandry and Unexamined Ordinariness of Twenty-First-Century
Medicine
1. Ordinary Medicine in Our Aging Society: The Dilemma of Longevity 21
Part II. The Chain of Health Care Drivers
 2. The Medical-Industrial Complex I: Evidence-Based Medicine, the
Biomedical Economy, and the Ascendance of Clinical Trials 53
3. The Medical-Industrial Complex II: Access, Industry, and the Clincial
Trials Phenomenon 79
4. "Reimbursement Is Critical for Everything": Medicare and the Ethics of
Managing Life 99
Part III: Medicine's Changing Means and Ends
5. Standard and Necessary Treatments: The Changing Means and Ends of
Technology 127
6. Family Matters: Kidneys and New Forms of Care 165
7. Influencing the Character of the Future: Prognosis, Risk, and Time Left
195
8. For Whose Benefit? Our Shared Quandary 217
Conclusion. Toward a New Social Contract? 238
Notes on the Research 249
Notes 255
Bibliography 285
Index  307