The Social Economics of Health Care

by John B Davis (Editor)

Overview

For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134621491
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2001
Series:	Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John B Davis

Table of Contents

List of tables, List of figures, List of contributors, Introduction, PART I Alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics, PART II Resistance to market-based reform of health care systems, PART III Issues surrounding health care and aging, PART IV The challenge of technology, Index