Overview

This volume focuses on issues that will have a fundamentally pivotal character as we move into the third millennium, and its individual contributions all have a futuristic approach, in that they identify the nature of the choices or dilemmas these issues will present to us in the future, and the various resolutions that might be made regarding them. The three main topic areas in this volume are: the dilemma of funding health care; the Human Genome Project; and the physician/patient relationship. By examining these three topics, this edition thus focuses on: the societal options for financing and distributing health care; what may well be the area of medical science and research that most radically affects the nature of that care in the foreseeable future: and the most fundamental unit of care.

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Author:   S. Wear ,  J.J. Bono ,  G. Logue ,  A. McEvoy
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   65
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.480kg
ISBN:  

9780792362777

ISBN 10:   0792362772
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Keynote Address: Bioethics at the End of the Millennium: Fashioning Health-Care Policy in the Absence of a Moral Consensus.- Keynote Address: Bioethics at the End of the Millennium: Fashioning Health-Care Policy in the Absence of a Moral Consensus.- The Dilemma of Funding Health Care.- The Dilemma of Funding Health Care.- Toward Multiple Standards of Health Delivery: Taking Moral and Economic Diversity Seriously.- A Preventive Ethics Approach to the Managed Practice of Medicine: Putting the History of Medical Ethics to Work.- Saving Lives, Saving Money: Shepherding the Role of Technology.- The Human Genome Project.- The Human Genome, Difference, and Disease: Nature, Culture, and New Narratives for Medicine’s Future.- Concepts of Disease After the Human Genome Project.- From Promises of Progress to Portents of Peril: Public Responses to Genetic Engineering.- PKU and Procreative Liberty: Historical and Ethical Considerations.- Everybody’s Got Something.- The Physician/Patient Relationship.- The Physician/Paitient Relationship.- A Medicine of Neighbors.- Trust, Institutions, and the Physician-Patient Relationship: Implications for Continuity of Care.- Can Relationships Heal — At a Reasonable Cost?.- Values and the patient-physician relationship.

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