Download The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) Pdf

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Release: 2000-10-27
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0878408452
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health care stem as much from a lack of agreement about the goals and priorities of medicine as from the way systems function. This book asks basic questions about the purposes and ends of medicine and shows that the answers have practical implications for future health care delivery, medical research, and the education of medical students. The Hastings Center coordinated teams of physicians, nurses, public health experts, philosophers, theologians, politicians, health care administrators, social workers, and lawyers in fourteen countries to explore these issues. In this volume, they articulate four basic goals of medicine -- prevention of disease, relief of suffering, care of the ill, and avoidance of premature death -- and examine them in light of the cultural, political, and economic pressures under which medicine functions. In reporting the Download The Goals of Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) pdf