Ordinary medicine : extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line / Sharon R. Kaufman.

  • Kaufman, Sharon R.
Date:
2015
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Durham [North Carolina] ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Physical description

xiii, 314 pages ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-305) and index.

Contents

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?

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    History of Medicine
    CBE /KAU
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ISBN

  • 9780822359029
  • 0822359022
  • 9780822358886
  • 0822358883