Health Care Crisis? The Search for Answers
Robert I. Misbin, MD, Bruce Jennings, MA, David Orentlicher, MD, JD, and Marvin Dewar, MD, JD
Health Care Crisis? The Search for Answers presents 20 premier papers—selected from 90 submissions received for a national conference in Washington, D.C. in 1995—on healthcare reform, sponsored by the American Medical Association, the Hastings Center, the University of Florida, and the American Association of Bioethics.
The common thread that runs through the chapters is the tension that has developed in U.S. healthcare between the rights of the individual and the needs of the community as a whole. For example, when family members insist that artificial life support be maintained indefinitely in patients who are permanently unconscious, and the courts side with families and against health providers who do not want to provide treatments that they consider futile, what is to be done? Chapters are ordered around four primary themes: medical futility, healthcare reform, healthcare rationing, and lessons from other cultures.
These papers are of interest to anyone concerned about the future of healthcare in the U.S.
$25.00. Sofcover. 1995. 245 pages
ISBN 1-55572-025-0
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