Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine

The United States, France, and Japan

Marc A. Rodwin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-975548-6 (ISBN)

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As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions about physicians' loyalty to their patients and their professional and economic independence. The consequences of such conflicts of interest are often devastating for the patients--and society--stuck in the middle.

In Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine, Marc Rodwin examines the development of these conflicts in the US, France, and Japan. He shows that national differences in the organization of medical practice and the interplay of organized medicine, the market, and the state give rise to variations in the type and prevalence of such conflicts. He then analyzes the strategies that each nation employs to cope with them.

Unfortunately, many proposals to address physicians' conflicts of interest do not offer solutions that stick. But drawing on the experiences of these three nations, Rodwin demonstrates that we can mitigate these problems with carefully planned reform and regulation. He examines a range of measures that can be taken in the private and public sector to preserve medical professionalism--and concludes that there just might be more than one prescription to this seemingly incurable malady.

Marc A. Rodwin is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School. He is the author of Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest (OUP 1993) and numerous articles on health law, ethics, politics and policy. Rodwin has been a research scholar at Tokyo University Law School and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in France. He has testified before Congress, advised consumer groups, and lectured in several countries.

1. The Heart of the Matter ; 2. The Evolution of the French Medicine ; 3. Coping with Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in France ; 4. The Rise of a Protected Medical Market: The United States before 1950 ; 5. The Commercial Transformation: The United States, 1950-1980 ; 6. The Logic of Medical Markets: The United States, 1980 to the Present ; 7. Coping with Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in the United States ; 8. The Evolution of Japanese Medicine ; 9. Coping with Physicians' Conflicts of Interest in Japan ; 10. Reforms ; 11. Professionalism Reconsidered

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2011
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 165 mm
Gewicht	646 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-975548-5 / 0199755485
ISBN-13	978-0-19-975548-6 / 9780199755486
Zustand	Neuware