"This text is appropriate for a wide range of courses in health economics including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA. It is also suitable for medicine and nursing courses, BSc/MSc in Health Management and for health professionals on post experience courses. It is also a major…
"This text is appropriate for a wide range of courses in health economics including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA. It is also suitable for medicine and nursing courses, BSc/MSc in Health Management and for health professionals on post experience courses. It is also a major…
"This text is appropriate for a wide range of courses in health economics including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA. It is also suitable for medicine and nursing courses, BSc/MSc in Health Management and for health professionals on post experience courses. It is also a major…
Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.
Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, the author makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs. After…
"Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is, 'just uses' the other and thereby acts wrongly. He takes his inspiration from Immanuel Kant's 'Formula of Humanity', which comman…
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience, but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the eth…
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the ethi…
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience, but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the eth…
A time of crisis -- A secular value of life -- Vital mobility -- Moral witness -- Human frontiers -- The problem of triage -- The longue durée of disease -- The verge of crisis -- Action beyond optimism.
"Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to "save lives" on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspo…
"Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to 'save lives' on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspo…
Film and literature have long been mined for interesting examples and case studies in order to teach biomedical ethics to students. This volume presents a collection of about 80 very brief, accessible essays written by international experts from medicine, social sciences, and th…