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Medicine and the market : equity v. choice / Daniel Callahan, Angela A. Wasunna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical economics.
- Medical care--Marketing.
- Medical care.
- Health services administration.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8881-6
- OCLC:
- 232160445
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