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Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line /
"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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [North Carolina] ; London :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Critical global health.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Diagnosing Twenty-First-Century health care
- The quandary and unexamined ordinariness of Twenty-First-Century medicine
- Ordinary medicine in our aging society: the dilemma of longevity
- The chain of health care drivers
- The medical-industrial complex I: evidence-based medicine, the biomedical
- Economy, and the ascendance of clinical trials
- The medical-industrial complex II: access, industry, and the clinical trials
- Phenomenon
- "Reimbursement is critical for everything": medicare and the ethics of managing life
- Medicine's changing means and ends
- Standard and necessary treatments: the changing means and ends of technology
- Family matters: kidneys and new forms of care
- Influencing the character of the future: prognosis, risk, and time left
- For whose benefit? Our shared quandary
- Toward a new social contract?