| Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics Contributor(s): Morreim, E. Haavi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0878405844 ISBN-13: 9780878405848 Publisher: Georgetown University Press OUR PRICE: $53.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Philosophy - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 174.26 |
| LCCN: 94037058 |
| Lexile Measure: 1520 |
| Series: Clinical Medical Ethics |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.03" W x 9.01" (0.68 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Medicine's changing economics have already fundamentally, permanently altered the relationship between physician and patient, E. Haavi Morreim argues. Physicians must weigh a patient's interests against the legitimate, competing claims of other patients, of payers, of society as a whole, and sometimes even of the physician himself. Focusing on actual situations in the clinical setting, Morreim explores the complex moral problems that current economic realities pose for the practicing physician. She redefines the moral obligations of both physicians and patients, traces the specific effects of these redefined obligations on clinical practice, and explores the implications for patients as individuals and for national health policy. Although the book focuses on health care in the United States, physicians everywhere are likely to face many of the same basic issues of clinical ethics, because every system of health care financing and distribution today is constrained by finite resources. |