Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s New Economics: 3 (Clinical Medical Ethics, 3) - Hardcover

Morreim, E. Haavi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792311701 ISBN 13: 9780792311706

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

[ Balancing ACT: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine S New Economics (1991) Morreim, E. Haavi ( Author ) ] { Hardcover } 1991

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Review

"An important, thought-provoking book informed by a detailed understanding of medical economics, health care law, and the clinical setting." -- "Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics"

"Morreim has thoughtfully addressed some difficult issues." -- "Business Economics"

"A thoughtful discussion of the implications of the changing economics of medicine for the obligations of physicians and patients toward one another and toward society as a whole....an excellent book. It applies sophisticated reason and careful scholarship to an extremely important issue at the intersection of philosophy, medicine, economics, and law." -- "The Journal of Clinical Ethics"

"A useful, original, and in many ways refreshingly practical book that challenges contemporary assumptions about doctor-patient relations. Specialists in bioethics will benefit from her lucid account of cost-containment mechanisms; physicians who feel themselves drowning in a sea of paperwork will find light cast on the dark corners of their daily ethical concerns." -- "Medical Humanities Review"

"The economic pressure on clinical caregivers to be cost-conscious in health care decisions is the greatest new ethical challenge facing physicians today....none focuses as sharply and effectively on pressures experienced by the practicing physician at the bedside as Haavi Morreim's "Balancing Act."" -- "JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)"

From the Back Cover

In this volume, Dick Bryan examines the influence of the international economy upon domestic accumulation, describing the process as the expression of the contradiction between the international scope of accumulation and the national scope of its regulation. Developing a theoretical framework for understanding the contradiction within Marxist political economy, he addresses the theory of value on an international scale, as well as theories of global restructuring and crisis. These issues are then applied to those domestic policies - such as monetary policy and balance of payments - that interrelate with the international economy. The author argues that the conventional theories informing these approaches have consistently failed to recognize the contradictions in international accumulation. National economic management has, as a result, reverted to explicit class politics, attempting to solve domestic economic problems by targeting the living standards of labor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792311701
• ISBN 13: 9780792311706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198