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Disentitlement?
Author | : Timothy Stoltzfus Jost |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-04-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199749051 |
No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, and tax subsidies for employment-related health benefits. These programs are increasingly embattled, attacked by those advocating privatization (replacing public with private insurance); individualization (replacing group and community-based insurance with approaches based on individual choice within markets); and devolution (devolving authority over entitlements to state governments and to private entities). Jost critically analyzes this movement toward disentitlement. He also examines the primary models for structuring health care entitlements in other countries - general taxation-funded national health insurance and social insurance - and considers what we can learn from these models. The book concludes by describing what an American entitlement-based health care system could look like, and in particular how the legal characteristics of our entitlement programs could be structured to support the long-term sustainability of these vital programs.
The Anticipatory Corpse
Author | : Jeffrey P. Bishop |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0268075859 |
In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.
A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice
Author | : Edmund D. Pellegrino |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Bibliography of Medical Reviews
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1306 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Theory Of Medical Ethics
Author | : Robert M. Veatch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1981-12-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
For All of Humanity
Author | : Martha Few |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816531870 |
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new strategies to protect families and communities from typhus and measles, and medical interventions into pregnancy and childbirth. For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Martha Few pays close attention to Indigenous Mesoamerican medical cultures, which not only influenced the shape and scope of those regional campaigns but also affected the broader New World medical cultures. The author reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease. Few’s analysis weaves medical history and ethnohistory with social, cultural, and intellectual history. She uses prescriptive texts, medical correspondence, and legal documents to provide rich ethnographic descriptions of Mesoamerican medical cultures, their practitioners, and regional pharmacopeia that came into contact with colonial medicine, at times violently, during public health campaigns.