Health Care Policy in an Age of New TechnologiesM.E. Sharpe, 2002 - 439 Seiten Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care. Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies takes on this challenging array of issues, where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of the national-level health care system: the right to die, rationing of care, organ transplants, experiments with human embryos, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, and other ethical dilemmas. Chapters on a patient's bill of rights, and on medical education and physician training, link the book to policy issues of direct concern to the public and practitioners. Throughout the book, the authors place critical questions in their political, legal, social, economic, and ethical context. Each chapter ends with discussion points, and a multimedia bibliography directs readers to relevant films, documentaries, and case studies. |
Inhalt
Technology Values and Health Care Policy | 3 |
X | 6 |
The Value of Biomedical Technology in Health Care | 11 |
Health Care Values and Public Policy in the New Millennium | 18 |
Organization of the Book | 25 |
International Perspective | 31 |
Right to Die in the United States | 40 |
vi | 45 |
viii | 176 |
A Model Health Privacy Policy | 188 |
Study Questions | 194 |
How to Ration | 202 |
National Government and Public Policy | 223 |
Oregon and Beyond | 236 |
Notes | 242 |
History of Patients Bill of Rights in the United States | 250 |
Arguments For and Against PhysicianAssisted Suicide | 57 |
Study Questions | 65 |
Brief History of Organ Transplants | 72 |
List and the Number of Patients Removed from the Waiting | 78 |
State Governments and Public Policy | 82 |
Policy Proposals to Address the Problem of Organ Shortages | 89 |
Human Cloning | 102 |
Study Questions | 109 |
Genetic Research and Health Care | 111 |
Applications of Genetic Research | 117 |
Arguments Against Genetic Research | 127 |
Genetic Research and Public Policy | 134 |
Genetic Research Values and Public Policy | 148 |
Privacy of Medical Records and Confidentiality | 156 |
Understanding Privacy | 164 |
Problems of Managed Care | 256 |
National Government and Patients Bill of Rights | 263 |
Enterprise Liability | 271 |
State Governments and Patients Bill of Rights | 279 |
Note | 286 |
xi | 294 |
Criticisms | 310 |
Medical Education Values | 322 |
Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies | 330 |
Web Sites | 337 |
References | 353 |
401 | |
About the Authors 441 | |
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