Trusting medicine
Subtitle: the moral costs of managed care
By: Patricia Illingworth.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Conflicting values in a troubled health care system; value: Bluffing, puffing, and spinning; value: Trust : the scarcest of medical resources; value: Conserving medical trust for the sake of social capital; value: Law, its meaning, and its effect on social capital; value: Employer leadership in the era of workplace rationing; value: Protecting medical trust, conserving social capital.