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RA410.53 .C353 2009eb
RA410
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53
.
C353
2009eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
069114236X
140083094X
9780691142364
9781400830947
1282259326
9780691142364
9781282259324
b747196
Taming the beloved beast :
[Book]
how medical technology costs are destroying our health care system /
Daniel Callahan.
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
1 online resource (x, 267 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medicare on the ropes -- Taming the beloved beast : medical technology -- Getting serious about costs and technology -- Competition : the fix that will fail -- The cohabitation of medicine and commerce -- "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept -- Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good -- Getting out from under : the politics of pain.
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Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming.
JSTOR
22573/cttt3ms
Taming the beloved beast.
069114236X
Medical care, Cost of-- United States.
Medical technology-- Economic aspects-- United States.
Biomedical Technology-- economics.
Health Care Costs.
Insurance-- economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.
Medical care, Cost of.
MEDICAL-- Ethics.
Medical technology-- Economic aspects.
United States.
United States.
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MED036000
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POL028000
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RA410
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53
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C353
2009eb
2009
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C156t
2009
Callahan, Daniel,1930-2019.
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