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Health Care, Ethics and Insurance (Professional Ethics) |
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Book Description
This volume is an exploration of the ethical issues raised by health insurance, which is particularly timely in the light of recent advances in medical research and political economy. Focusing on a wide range of areas, such as AIDS, genetic engineering, screening and underwriting, new disability legislation and the ethics of private and public health insurance, this comprehensive and sometimes controversial book provides an essential survey of the key issues in heal... >> |
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Institutional Integrity in Health Care (Philosophy and Medicine) |
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Book Description
Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, caregivers, and society at large. In order to respond to these controversies, ... >> |
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Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California |
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From the New England Journal of Medicine, November 28, 2002
Mergers and acquisitions are now such common subjects of discussion in our newspapers, on television, and in the country's larger law firms that they are hardly news any longer. The aim of a merger is to make something greater or stronger than the sum of its parts. What is newsworthy is that they may fail or be contested in the courts, and what is worrisome is that the world of business is littered with failed mergers. So i... >> |
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