What price mental health? : the ethics and politics of setting priorities /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1995.
Description:ix, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Hastings Center studies in ethics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2354120
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Other authors / contributors:Boyle, Philip.
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-
ISBN:0878405763 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Influences in Priority Setting
  • 1. Minds and Hearts: Priorities in Mental Health Services
  • 2. Government and Mental Health Policy: A Structural Analysis
  • 3. Establishing Mental Health Priorities
  • 4. Who Will Set Priorities for Mental Health?
  • 5. Law and Priority Setting
  • 6. Private Insurance Priorities: Its Effect on Mental Health Priorities
  • II. Priority Setting Case Studies
  • 7. Prioritization of Mental Health Services in Oregon
  • 8. Mental Health Coverage in Health Care Reform: The Case of New York State
  • III. Ethical Issues in Setting Priorities
  • 9. Setting Mental Health Priorities: Problems and Possibilities
  • 10. Priority Setting in Mental Health?
  • 11. Tragedy, Prejudice, and Publicity in Setting Priorities
  • 12. What Level of Government? Balancing the Interests of the State and Local Community
  • 13. Some Unresolved Ethical Issues in Priority Setting of Mental Health Services