Callahan Taming the Beloved Beast

How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3094-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Callahan, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

CHAPter 1: Medicare on the Ropes 10

CHAPter 2: Taming the Beloved Beast: Medical Technology 37

CHAPter 3: Getting Serious about Costs and Technology 67

CHAPter 4: Competition: The Fix That Will Fail 92

CHAPter 5: The Cohabitation of Medicine and Commerce 120

CHAPter 6: "Medical Necessity": An All-But-Useless Concept 143

CHAPter 7: Redefining "Medical Necessity": From Individual Good to Common Good 171

CHAPter 8: Getting Out from Under: The Politics of Pain 201

Coda 229

Notes 235

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Callahan is senior researcher and president emeritus at the Hastings Center, which he cofounded, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. His many books include Medicine and the Market.