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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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
1999.
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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.