Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Essential Readings

ISBN-13: 9780190200756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 568 str.

Ezekiel Emanuel; Harald Schmidt; Andrew Steinmetz

Opis

This volume is a reader containing the most important classic articles surrounding the theoretical and practical issues related to rationing and how to allocate scare medical resources. Each chapter contains an introduction by the editors, followed by excerpts from the relevant articles, and then questions for discussion and a list of further reading.

Recenzje

"physicians, investigators, policymakers, and also the general public can find in this volume proper answers, useful for decision making in a field so relevant for human healthcare and for today's bioethics.

O autorze

Ezekiel Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew Steinmetz is a Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Harald Schmidt is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and Research Associate at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.