Medicine and Money

A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment

Frank H. Marsh, Mark Yarborough (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

1990
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-26357-6 (ISBN)

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Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment is a frank discussion of the moral problems associated with the need to control health care costs. The book provides a base for physicians to address these concerns and examines the events leading to America's current health care crisis, diminishing beneficence. After a brief definition of the problem, Frank H. Marsh and Mark Yarborough continue by describing the threat of cost containment and justifying beneficence-based health care system. Special importance is given to Medicine and Money by the lengthy suggestions on implementing beneficence in the health care system.

Marsh and Yarborough address the problem of eroding morality and rising cost concerns of our present health care system. They argue that if the central role of beneficence is abandoned, the medical profession will be unable to properly meet the challenge it faces. Medicine and Money divides its argument into two sections. In the first section, the current crisis in health care is examined and a justification for beneficence is given. The second section describes how beneficence can be implemented in the health care system as a means to control health care costs. Medicine and Money is written for every member of the medical and philosophical communities.

FRANK H. MARSH is Professor of Medical Ethics and Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of The Emerging Rights of Children In Treatment for Mental and Catastrophic Illnesses, Punishment and Restitution (Greenwood Press, 1984) and Biology, Crime, and Ethics. MARK YARBOROUGH is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Preventative Medicine, Program of Medical Ethics, at the University of Colorado.

Preface Beneficence as the Foundation for the Health Care System Defining the Problem Cost Containment's Threat to Health Care The Justification of a Health Policy Based on Rights and Justice Justifying a Beneficence Based Health Care System Implementing Beneficence in the Health Care System Beneficence and the Role of the Physician Beneficence and the Neonatologist Beneficence and the Treatment of the Elderly Beneficence and the Difficult Patient Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.6.1990
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-313-26357-4 / 0313263574
ISBN-13	978-0-313-26357-6 / 9780313263576
Zustand	Neuware