Kaufman Ordinary Medicine

Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7550-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of drivers among science, industry, new technology, and insurance spur this quandary, serving to obscure the ability to identify the difference between extraordinary and ordinary medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufman, Sharon R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Diagnosing Twenty-First-Century Health Care 1

Part I: The Quandry and Unexamined Ordinariness of Twenty-First-Century Medicine

1. Ordinary Medicine in Our Aging Society: The Dilemma of Longevity 21

Part II. The Chain of Health Care Drivers

2. The Medical-Industrial Complex I: Evidence-Based Medicine, the Biomedical Economy, and the Ascendance of Clinical Trials 53

3. The Medical-Industrial Complex II: Access, Industry, and the Clincial Trials Phenomenon 79

4. "Reimbursement Is Critical for Everything": Medicare and the Ethics of Managing Life 99

Part III: Medicine's Changing Means and Ends

5. Standard and Necessary Treatments: The Changing Means and Ends of Technology 127

6. Family Matters: Kidneys and New Forms of Care 165

7. Influencing the Character of the Future: Prognosis, Risk, and Time Left 195

8. For Whose Benefit? Our Shared Quandary 217

Conclusion. Toward a New Social Contract? 238

Notes on the Research 249

Notes 255

Bibliography 285

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon R. Kaufman is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of …And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.