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Taming the beloved beast : how medical technology costs are destroying our health care system / Daniel Callahan.
LIBRA RA410.53 .C353 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care, Cost of--United States.
- Medical care, Cost of.
- Medical technology--Economic aspects.
- Medical technology.
- United States.
- Medical technology--Economic aspects--United States.
- Biomedical Technology--economics.
- Health Care Costs.
- Insurance--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Technology--economics.
- United States.
- Health Care Costs.
- Insurance--economics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Medicare on the ropes
- Taming the beloved beast : medical technology
- Getting serious about costs and technology
- Competition : the fix that will fail
- The cohabitation of medicine and commerce
- "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept
- Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good
- Getting out from under : the politics of pain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691142364
- 069114236X
- OCLC:
- 299126310
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