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OverviewAcross the globe, large corporations are dominating the supply and delivery of health care products and services and altering the behavior of health professionals. In Who Owns Your Health? Thomas Faunce applies moral, bioethical, and human rights perspectives to examine how the privatization of health care affects the public good. Drawing on the author's rich knowledge of relevant law, philosophy, and literature, his personal experience on the front lines of clinical medicine, and interviews with players who are intimately familiar with the pharmaceutical industry, this elegantly written analysis explores the urgent issues surrounding growing corporate influence on health policy and medical professionalism. In addressing the inherent tensions involved in the business of health care, Faunce promotes a framework by which the benefits of corporate competition might be better harnessed to promote patient well-being while acknowledging the need to ensure that global health remains a sustainable enterprise. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Alured FauncePublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780801888434ISBN 10: 0801888433 Pages: 314 Publication Date: 01 January 2008 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsIn a world in which states promote the global privatization of health care resources, how are we to protect a doctor's paramount virtue of commitment to the good of the patient? Thomas Faunce's book deepens our appreciation of the ways in which the market tends to corrupt trustworthy medical practice. But - just as important - it suggests ways in which the profit motive might be harnessed to the relief of sick people. - Bernadette Tobin, M.D., Plunkett Centre for Ethics, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney This book covers challenges for the medical profession from ethics to education and should be obligatory reading for all engaged in health service delivery now and in the future, from students and professionals to policy makers. - Richard Ruffin, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide Author InformationThomas Faunce, B.Med., Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the College of Law and the Medical School at the Australian National University and a consultant working with UNESCO on its global database on health law and bioethics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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