Taming the beloved beast
Subtitle: how medical technology costs are destroying our health care system
By: Daniel Callahan.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691142364
Subjects: Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Medical technology -- Economic aspects -- United States; Biomedical Technology -- economics -- United States; Health Care Costs -- United States; Insurance -- economics -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicare on the ropes; title: Taming the beloved beast : medical technology; title: Getting serious about costs and technology; title: Competition : the fix that will fail; title: The cohabitation of medicine and commerce; title: "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept; title: Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good; title: Getting out from under : the politics of pain.