Ordinary Medicine : Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line /

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Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaufman, Sharon R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]
Colección:Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Temas:
Longevity > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Medical care, Cost of > United States.
Medical ethics > United States.
AAA Award Winners.
Robert B. Textor Award.
anticipatory anthropology.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Diagnosing Twenty-First- Century Health Care
  • PART I: THE QUANDARY AND UNEXAMINED ORDINARINESS OF TWENTY-FIRST- CENTURY MEDICINE
  • 1. Ordinary Medicine in Our Aging Society
  • PART II: THE CHAIN OF HEALTH CARE DRIVERS
  • 2. The Medical-Industrial Complex I
  • 3. The Medical-Industrial Complex II
  • 4. "Reimbursement Is Critical for Everything"
  • PART III: MEDICINE'S CHANGING MEANS AND ENDS
  • 5. Standard and Necessary Treatments
  • 6. Family Matters
  • 7. Influencing the Character of the Future
  • 8. For Whose Benefit?
  • Conclusion Toward a New Social Contract?
  • Notes on the Research
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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