1st Edition

The Social Economics of Health Care

Edited By John B Davis Copyright 2001
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it. Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude... Read more
List of tables, List of figures, List of contributors, Introduction, PART I Alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics, PART II Resistance to market-based reform of health care systems, PART III Issues surrounding health care and aging, PART IV The challenge of technology, Index

Biography

John B Davis