Prevention vs. Treatment (eBook, ePUB)

What's the Right Balance?
Redaktion: Faust, Halley S. MD; Menzel, Paul T. Ph. D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In our health care spending, is prevention underfunded while treatment receives overall priority? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine, and morally, conceptually, and historically by philosophers, lawyers, theologians, and ethicists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190208387
• Artikelnr.: 40713895

Autorenporträt

Halley S. Faust, MD, MPH, MA is a preventive medicine physician, philosopher, health care executive, and venture capitalist, and the President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico. Paul T. Menzel, PhD has taught philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University(Tacoma, WA) since 1971. He has authored two books on moral questions about health economics and numerous papers on rights to health care and the role of values in shaping choices of health system structure.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction
* Part I. Evidence, Policy, and History
* 2. What Is Currently Spent on Prevention as Compared to Treatment?
* 3. Prevention vs. Cure: An Economist's Perspective on the Right
Balance
* 4. Toward a More Evidence-Based Preventive Medicine: Issues in the
Science of Clinical Prevention
* 5. Prevention and the Science and Politics of Evidence
* 6. Historical Perspectives on Structural Barriers to Prevention
* Part II. Philosophical and Legal Analysis
* 7. Our Alleviation Bias: Why Do We Value Alleviating Harm More than
Preventing Harm?
* 8. Treatment and Prevention: What Do We Owe Each Other?
* 9. The Variable Value of Life and Fairness to the Already Ill: Two
Promising but Tenuous Arguments for Treatment's Priority
* 10. The Slow Transition of U.S. Law Toward a Greater Emphasis on
Prevention
* 11. Should the Value of Future Health Benefits Be Time-Discounted?
* Part III. Religious and Cultural Perspectives
* 12. Prevention vs. Treatment: How Do We Allocate Scarce Resources
from Jewish Ethical Perspectives?
* 13. Cure vs. Prevention: Catholic Perspectives
* 14. Loving God and the Neighbor: Protestant Insights for Prevention
and Treatment
* 15. Apocalypse and Health: Treatment and Prevention in the
Seventh-day Adventist Tradition
* 16. Prevention vs. Treatment in Hong Kong: Constrained Utilitarianism
with a Chinese Character
* Index