| Description |
xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Hastings Center studies in ethics |
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Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments / Mark J. Hanson and Daniel Callahan -- Project Report: The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities -- The Goals and Ends of Medicine: How Are They to be Defined? / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- On Medicine and Other Means of Health Enhancement: Towards a Conceptual Framework / Lennart Nordenfelt -- What Kind of Values? A Historical Perspective on the Ends of Medicine / Diego Gracia -- Pain, Suffering, and the Goals of Medicine / Eric J. Cassell -- Symptoms or Persons? A Question for Setting the Goals of Medicine / Olle Hellstrom -- The Idea of Progress and the Goals of Medicine / Mark J. Hanson -- Old Age: Something to Look Forward To? / Kenneth Boyd -- Genetic Medicine: A New Copernican Turning Point? / Gerlinde Sponholz, et. al. -- The Goals of Medicine and Public Health / Rui-cong Peng -- Rethinking Doctor Think: Reforming Medical Education by Nurturing Neglected Goals / Ellen Fox -- Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Goals of Medicine / Lu Weibo |
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The Future of Medicine: An Analytic Framework / Gabriel Gyarmati -- On the Goals of Medicine: Reflections and Distinctions / Fernando Lolas -- Negotiating the Goals of Medicine / Daniel M. Fox |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health care reform -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Health planning -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-
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Hanson, Mark J.
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| LC no. |
98044650 |
| ISBN |
0878407073 |
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