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The goals of medicine : the forgotten issue in health care reform

Author: Mark J Hanson; Daniel Callahan
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©1999.
Series: Hastings Center studies in ethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 questions about the purposes and ends of medicine and shows that the answers have practical implications for future health care  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Goals of medicine.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1999
(OCoLC)671566924
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark J Hanson; Daniel Callahan
ISBN: 0878407073 9780878407071
OCLC Number: 39981777
Description: xiv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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 ... [et al.] --
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.
Series Title: Hastings Center studies in ethics.
Responsibility: edited by Mark J. Hanson, Daniel Callahan.

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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 questions about the purposes and ends of medicine and shows that the answers have practical implications for future health care delivery, medical research, and the education of medical students.

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