Ordinary medicine, extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line, Sharon R. Kaufman
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Ordinary medicine, extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line, Sharon R. Kaufman
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Ordinary medicine
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Sharon R. Kaufman
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Critical global health
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extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line
Table of 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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