Strauss / Oberlander / Churchill The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition

Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8734-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

A collection of readings--for medical students and students of public health-- that deal with social and cultural issues in medicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strauss, Ronald P.

Oberlander, Jonathan

Churchill, Larry R.

Estroff, Sue E.

Henderson, Gail E.

King, Nancy M. P.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition vii

Introduction 1

Part I: The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs

The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere? / Jonathan Oberlander 5

Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care / Uwe E. Reinhardt 25

From Bismarck to Medicare - A Brief History of Medical Care Payment In America / Donald L. Madison 31

The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart / Drew E. Altman and Larry Levitt 67

The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation / Henry J. Aaron 70

The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost: Containment as Told In One Chart / Thomas Bodenheimer 73

Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs / Lawrence d. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76

Part II: Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing

Bedside Manna / Deborah Stone 95

Must Good HMOs Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care / Robert Kuttner 107

Defending My Life / Geov Parrish 119

Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care / Wendy K. Mariner 128

The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation / George J. Annas 150

Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Canada / Jafna L. Cox 158

Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization / Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167

Part III: International Perspectives and Emerging Issues

Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma / Uwe E. Reinhardt 179

Health Care in Four Nations / Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199

Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 230

What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States? / Victor R. Fuchs 240

Luxury Primary Care - Market Innovation or Threat to Access? / Troyen A. Brennan 246

Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 255

Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan 260

Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equaity and Age-Based Rationing / Robert H. Binstock 267

Index to Authors 285

About the Editors 287

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Oberlander is an associate professor of social medicine and an adjunct associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Larry R. Churchill is Professor of and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone and Rationing Health Care in America: Perceptions and Principles of Justice.Sue E. Estroff is Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community.Gail E. Henderson, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit.Nancy M. P. King, Associate Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Making Sense of Advance Directives.Ronald P. Strauss is Professor of Dental Ecology and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is author of numerous articles on social and ethical issues in the care of chronic illness.