| Description |
xiii, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-305) and index. |
| Contents |
Diagnosing twenty-first-century health care -- The quandary and unexamined ordinariness of twenty-first-century medicine. Ordinary medicine in our aging society : the dilemma of longevity -- The chain of health care drivers. The medical-industrial complex I : evidence-based medicine, the biomedical economy, and the ascendance of clinical trials ; The medical-industrial complex II : access, industry, and the clinical trials phenomenon ; "Reimbursement is critical for everything" : Medicare and the ethics of managing life -- Medicine's changing means and ends. Standard and necessary treatments : the changing means and ends of technology ; Family matters : kidneys and new forms of care ; Influencing the character of the future : prognosis, risk, and time left ; For whose benefit? : our shared quandary -- Toward a new social contract? |
| Summary |
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. |
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical ethics -- United States.
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Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
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Longevity -- United States.
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Health Services.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Longevity.
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Longevity. (OCoLC)fst01002373
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Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
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Medical care, Cost of. (OCoLC)fst01013902
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Lebensverlängerung. (DE-588)4167056-5
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Medizinische Versorgung. (DE-588)4038270-9
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Sterben. (DE-588)4057310-2
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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| ISBN |
9780822359029 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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0822359022 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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9780822358886 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0822358883 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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