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The Goals of Medicine : The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform /

Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health care stem as much from a lack of agreement about the goals and priorities of medicine as from the way systems function. This book asks basic question...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019 (Editor ), Hanson, Mark J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Goals of medicine : setting new priorities / Project report
  • Goals and ends of medicine : how are they to be defined? / Edmund D. Pellegrino
  • On medicine and other means of health enhancement : towards a conceptual framework / Lennart Nordenfelt
  • What kind of values? : a historical perspective on the ends of medicine / Diego Gracia
  • Pain, suffering, and the goals of medicine / Eric J. Cassell
  • Symptoms or persons? : a question for setting the goals of medicine / Olle Hellström
  • Idea of progress and the goals of medicine / Mark J. Hanson
  • Old age : something to look forward to? / Kenneth Boyd
  • Genetic medicine : a new Copernican turning point? / Gerlinde Sponholz [and others]
  • Goals of medicine and public health / Rui-cong Peng
  • Rethinking Doctorthink : reforming medical education by nurturing neglected goals / Ellen Fox
  • Traditional Chinese medicine and the goals of medicine / Lu Weibo
  • Future of medicine : an analytic framework / Gabriel Gyarmati
  • On the goals of medicine : reflections and distinctions / Fernando Lolas
  • Negotiating the goals of medicine / Daniel M. Fox.