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Balancing act : the new medical ethics of medicine's new economics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morreim, E. Haavi
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1991]
Series:Clinical medical ethics ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Medical ethics > United States > Cost control.
Medical care, Cost of > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Medical ethics > United States > Decision making.
Physicians > Professional ethics.
Delivery of Health Care > economics > United States.
Economics, Medical > United States.
Ethics, Medical.
Physician-Patient Relations.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Medical care > Cost control.
Medical care, Cost of > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics > Decision making.
United States.
Gezondheidszorg.
Medische ethiek.
Loyaliteit.
Medische consumptie.
Gesundheitsökonomie.
Medizinische Ethik.
Medicine > Economics > Ethics
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. A bit of history
  • 3. Economic forces, clinical constraints
  • 4. Fiscal scarcity: challenging fidelity
  • 5. The limits and obligations of fidelity: resource use
  • 6. The obligations and limits of fidelity: physicians' professional services
  • 7. The new medical ethics of medicine's new economics.