Medicine and the Market

Equity V. Choice
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8339-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Reihe: Bioethics

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine

Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings.

Tracing the path that market practices have taken from Adam Smith in the eighteenth century into twenty-first-century health care, Daniel Callahan and Angela A. Wasunna add a fresh dimension: they compare the different approaches taken in the market debate by health care economists, conservative market advocates, and liberal supporters of single-payer or government-regulated systems.

In addition to laying out the market-versus-government struggle around the world—from Canada and the United States to Western Europe, Latin America, and many African and Asian countries—they assess the leading market practices, such as competition, physician incentives, and co-payments, for their economic and health efficacy to determine whether they work as advertised.

This timely and necessary book engages new dimensions of a development that has urgent consequences for the delivery of health care worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callahan, Daniel

Wasunna, Angela A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Of Money, the Market, and Medicine
1. From Adam Smith to HMOs: The Origins of Medicine and the Market
2. A Tale of Two Cultures: Canada and the United States
3. The Endurance of Solidarity: Universal Health Care in Western Europe and Elsewhere
4. The Market in Developing Countries: An Ongoing Experiment
5. The Market Wild Card: Pharmaceuticals
6. The Value of the Market: What Does the Evidence Show?
7. The Future of the Market in Health Care: Undercurrents from the Past, Riptides from the Future
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wasunna, Angela A
Angela A. Wasunna is the assistant director of international affairs at Pfizer, Inc., and the coauthor of Medicine and the Market, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Callahan, Daniel
Daniel Callahan is the director of International Programs.

Daniel Callahan is the director of International Programs and Angela A. Wasunna is assistant director of International Programs at Pfizer, Inc.