Overview

Today the medical community faces a number of pressing issues. Molecular and high-tech medicine, despite their tremendous successes, also burden us with new ethical dilemmas: when and how to die, whose life to preserve, whether to modify genes to create life, and how to pay for it all. Furthermore, alternative methods appear to work at least for certain disorders. They are popular and definitely cost less, while the spiraling costs of conventional medicine have led to the development of managed care and health economy assessments with controversial consequences. An international symposium in Berlin, in September 1999, sought to address some of these issues by sparking an interdisciplinary discussion between leading experts in the field of genetics, robotic surgery, medical ethics, preventive health and heath economics, history, and law. This book contains all the contributions and seeks to involve scholars and medical practitioners who are interested in shaping the future of medicine.

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Author:   Stefan N. Willich ,  S. Elm
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   2001 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780792369042

ISBN 10:   0792369041
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   30 April 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. Historical Perspectives.- Developments in Ancient Medicine — Models for Today’s Challenges? Contemporary Medicine and the Christianisation of the Roman Elite — a Parallel.- “Dying Well” and the Doctors.- II. From Alternative to Integrative Medicine.- Complementary Care in the United States.- Alternative Medicine in Germany — Personal Views of a Critical Observer.- III. Restructuring Health Care Systems.- Rationing Health Care in Germany: Constitutional Opportunities and Limits.- Structural Changes in Health Care Systems — the Advent of “e-healthcare”.- IV. New Technologies.- Minimally Invasive Robotic Telesurgery.- The Strange Case of Molecular Medicine — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited?.- V. Ethical Reflections.- Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine at the Beginning and the End of Life.- The Idea of Progress in Medical Ethics.

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