Trusting medicine
Subtitle: the moral cost of managed care
By: Patricia Illingworth.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Managed care plans (Medical care) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Physician and patient -- United States; Trust -- United States; Managed Care Programs -- ethics -- United States; Trust -- United States; Physician-Patient Relations -- United States
Description: Provides an overview of healthcare spending and the cost-containment mechanisms that have lead to an increasingly corporate style of healthcare in the US. It also looks at what happens to doctor-patient relationships in a managed care system and how good doctor-patient relationships could contribute to health promotion and to social capital. The book concludes with policy implications, including the applicability of lessons to other areas, such as environmental protection and policing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conflicting values in a troubled health care system; title: Bluffing, puffing, and spinning; title: Trust : the scarcest of medical resources; title: Conserving medical trust for the sake of social capital; title: Law, its meaning, and its effect on social capital; title: Employer leadership in the era of workplace rationing; title: Protecting medical trust, conserving social capital.