Health policy and ethics : a critical examination of values from a global perspective /

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Author / Creator:Worthington, Roger.
Imprint:London ; New York : Radcliffe Pub., c2011.
Description:xii, 156 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8515784
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Other authors / contributors:Rohrbaugh, Robert M.
ISBN:9781846193101 (pbk.)
1846193109 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Why ethics and health policy
  • Health policy and rationing: in search of reason
  • Policy success and failure: causes, remedies and methods of analysis
  • Ancient origins and modern approaches to health care delivery in China
  • Medical ethics, policy and health care delivery in modern China / Kwok-Yin Chan
  • Accessing psychiatric treatment in China / Carla Marienfeld
  • Medicine, ethics and professionalism in modern India
  • Indian philosophy and bioethics / Roger Worthington
  • Health care in the Himalayas
  • Health and social policy trends in Malaysia / Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad
  • Pharmaceutical industry, medicine and questions of ethics
  • Industry and the physician-investigator in the USA / Jaazzmina Hussain
  • Postgraduate medical education in the USA / Caroline Broughton
  • Geneva to Guantanamo and the ethics of interrogation / Maya Prabhu
  • Risk and shared decision-making: questions of medical practice and social policy in the UK / Sarah A. Lee
  • Italian policy and the ethics of ECT / Anthony Marfeo
  • Comparative analysis and future health care decision-making.