Conflicts of interest and the future of medicine
Subtitle: the United States, France, and Japan
By: Marc A. Rodwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780199755486
Subjects: Physicians; Conflict of Interest; Morals; Medical Ethics; Medical economics; Conflict of interests
Description: This book examines the development of conflicts of interest in the healthcare systems of the US, France, and Japan. It shows that national differences in the organization of medical practice and the interplay of organized medicine, the market, and the state give rise to variations in the type and prevalence of such conflicts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The heart of the matter; title: The evolution of the French medicine; title: Coping with physicians' conflicts of interest in France; title: The rise of a protected medical market : the United States before 1950; title: The commercial transformation : the United States, 1950-1980; title: The logic of medical markets : the United States, 1980 to the present; title: Coping with physicians' conflicts of interest in the United States; title: The evolution of Japanese medicine; title: Coping with physicians' conflicts of interest in Japan; title: Reforms; title: Professionalism reconsidered.