Prevention vs. treatment
Subtitle: what's the right balance?
By: edited by Halley S. Faust and Paul T. Menzel
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Apha Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780199837373
Subjects: Preventive health services; Preventive Health Services; Therapeutics; Health Promotion; Evidence-based medicine; Religion and Medicine; Primary Prevention; Preventive Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is currently spent on prevention as compared to treatment? / Charles Roehrig ... [et al.]; title: Prevention vs. cure : an economist's perspective on the right balance / Louise B. Russell; title: Toward a more evidence-based preventive medicine : issues in the science of clinical prevention / Robert B. Wallace; title: Prevention and the science and politics of evidence / Diana B. Petitti; title: Historical perspectives on structural barriers to prevention / Halley S. Faust; title: Our alleviation bias : why do we value alleviating harm more than preventing harm? / Halley S. Faust; title: Treatment and prevention : what do we owe each other? / Norman Daniels; title: The variable value of life and fairness to the already ill : two promising but tenuous arguments for treatment's priority / Paul T. Menzel; title: The slow transition of U.S. law toward a greater emphasis on prevention / Thaddeus Mason Pope; title: Should the value of future health benefits be time-discounted? / Paul T. Menzel; title: Prevention vs. treatment : how do we allocate scarce resources from Jewish ethical perspectives? / Alan Jotkowitz and Shimon Glick; title: Cure vs. prevention : Catholic perspectives / Nuala Kenny; title: Loving God and the neighbor : Protestant insights for prevention and treatment / Ana Marie Vigen; title: Apocalypse and health : treatment and prevention in the Seventh-day Adventist tradition / Roy Branson; title: Prevention vs. treatment in Hong Kong : constrained utilitarianism with a Chinese character / Ho Mun Chan.