Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care

by Paul T. Menzel

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In one form or another, health care now gets rationed. Not everything beneficial is done for every patient. For the individual the consequences are sometimes tragic. Rationing decisions thus raise a classic dilemma: how can we treat with dignity and genuine respect the person who gets short-changed by an efficient policy that seems best overall? Strong Medicine argues that we can, if those policies represent the hard trade-off preferences of patients...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195057104

ISBN13:9780195057102

Release Date:January 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Administration & Policy Ethics Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics Medicine Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences

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