Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition (eBook, PDF)

Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
Redaktion: Jonathan Oberlander, Oberlander

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. The first edition of The Social Medicine Reader was a single volume. This significantly revised and expanded second edition is divided into three volumes to facilitate use by different audiences with varying interests.Praise for the 3-volume second edition of The Social Medicine Reader:"e;A superb collection of essays that illuminate the role of medicine in modern society. Students and general readers are not likely to find anything better."e;-Arnold S. Relman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolPraise for the first edition:"e;This reviewer strongly recommends The Social Medicine Reader to the attention of medical educators."e;-Samuel W. Bloom, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical AssociationVolume 3:Over the past four decades the American health care system has witnessed dramatic changes in private health insurance, campaigns to enact national health insurance, and the rise (and perhaps fall) of managed care. Bringing together seventeen pieces new to this second edition of The Social Medicine Reader and four pieces from the first edition, Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine draws on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives-including political science, economics, history, and bioethics-to consider changes in health care and the future of U.S. health policy. Contributors analyze the historical and moral foundation of today's policy debates, examine why health care spending is so hard to control in the United States, and explain the political dynamics of Medicare and Medicaid. Selections address the rise of managed care, its impact on patients and physicians, and the ethical implications of applying a business ethos to medical care; they also compare the U.S. health care system to the systems in European countries, Canada, and Japan. Additional readings probe contemporary policy issues, including the emergence of consumer-driven health care, efforts to move quality of care to the top of the policy agenda, and the implications of the aging of America for public policy.Contributors: Henry J. Aaron, Drew E. Altman, George J. Annas, Robert H. Binstock, Thomas Bodenheimer, Troyen A. Brennan, Robert H. Brook, Lawrence D. Brown, Daniel Callahan, Jafna L. Cox, Victor R. Fuchs, Kevin Grumbach, Rudolf Klein, Robert Kuttner, Larry Levitt, Donald L. Madison, Wendy K. Mariner, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jonathan Oberlander, Geov Parrish, Sharon Redmayne, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Michael S. Sparer, Deborah Stone

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822387343
• Artikelnr.: 54929707

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Larry R. Churchill is Professor of and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone and Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice. Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community. Gail E. Henderson, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit. Nancy M. P. King, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Making Sense of Advance Directives. Ronald P. Strauss is Professor of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is author of numerous articles on social and ethical issues in the care of chronic illness.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition vii
Introduction 1
Part I: The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs
The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander 5
Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care / Uwe
E. Reinhardt 25
From Bismarck to Medicare - A Brief History of Medical Care Payment In
America / Donald L. Madison 31
The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew
E. Altman and Larry Levitt 67
The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation / Henry J.
Aaron 70
The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost: Containment as Told In One Chart /
Thomas Bodenheimer 73
Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance
Programs / Lawrence d. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76
Part II: Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing
Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone 95
Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care /
Robert Kuttner 107
Defending My Life / Geov Parrish 119
Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care / Wendy
K. Mariner 128
The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ
Transplantation / George J. Annas 150
Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L.
Cox 158
Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne
and Rudolf Klein 167
Part III: International Perspectives and Emerging Issues
Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt
179
Health Care in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H.
Brook 230
What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs
240
Luxury Primary Care - Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A.
Brennan 246
Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 255
Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan 260
Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equaity and Age-Based Rationing /
Robert H. Binstock 267
Index to Authors 285
About the Editors 287