Medicine and the market
Subtitle: equity v. choice
By: Daniel Callahan, Angela A. Wasunna.
Contributors: Wasunna, Angela A., 1973-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Medical economics.; Medical care -- Marketing.; Health services administration.; Medical ethics.; Health Care Sector -- ethics.; Health Care Reform -- ethics.; Health Services Needs and Demand -- ethics.
Description: "Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunns add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems." "In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of medicine and the market: from Adam Smith to HMOs; title: A tale of two cultures: Canada and the United States; title: The endurance of solidarity: universal health care in Western Europe and elsewhere; title: The market in developing countries: an ongoing experiment; title: The market wild card: pharmaceuticals; title: The value of the market: what does the evidence show?; title: The future of the market in health care: undercurrents from the past, rip tides from the future.