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Medicine and the market : equity v. choice / Daniel Callahan, Angela A. Wasunna.
Van Pelt Library RA410.53 .C352 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics.
- Medical care--Marketing.
- Medical care.
- Health services administration.
- Medical ethics.
- Health Care Sector--ethics.
- Health Care Reform--ethics.
- Health Services Needs and Demand--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Sector--ethics.
- Health Care Reform--ethics.
- Health Services Needs and Demand--ethics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single payer or government-regulated systems.
- Contents:
- From Adam Smith to HMOs: the origins of medicine and the market
- A tale of two cultures: Canada and the United States
- The endurance of solidarity: universal health care in Western Europe and elsewhere
- The market in developing countries: an ongoing experiment
- The market wild card: pharmaceuticals
- The value of the market: what does the evidence show?
- The future of the market in health care: undercurrents from the past, riptides from the future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801883393
- OCLC:
- 61334488
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801883392
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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