| Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy: An Annual Review: Setting Allocation Priorities Revised Edition Contributor(s): Blank, Robert H. (Editor), Bonnicksen, Andrea L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231074115 ISBN-13: 9780231074117 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $41.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1993 Annotation: Volume One discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on two substantive areas of biomedical policy beset by conflicts. Physicians, patients, and public officials are locked in new battles over whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn. Meanwhile, researchers, government officials, and patients struggle to determine who will receive experimental medical treatment, and what procedures should be instituted to protect the recipients. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Medical | Health Policy - Political Science | American Government - National |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Series: Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.18" W x 8.68" (0.99 lbs) 315 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Volume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on two substantive areas of biomedical policy beset by conflicts. Physicians, patients, and public officials are locked in new battles over whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn. Meanwhile, researchers, government officials, and patients struggle to determine who will receive experimental medical treatment, and what procedures should be instituted to protect the recipients. |