Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.

Author/creator Ubel, Peter A.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2000.
Descriptionxix, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBasic bioethics
Basic bioethics. ^A459921
Contents Cost-effectiveness and the controversial necessity of health care rationing. Rationing according to cost-effectiveness: explicit, quantifiable, and unacceptable? ; The politics of defining health care rationing ; The necessity of rationing health care ; The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for making rationing decisions ; How do people want to ration health care? Balancing cost-effectiveness and fairness -- Cost-effectiveness and bedside rationing: do two wrongs make a right?. The case against bedside rationing ; Recognizing bedside rationing ; Linguistic confusion about bedside rationing ; The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing -- The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing. Future possibilities for improving how cost-effectiveness analysis incorporates public rationing preferences ; The future of cost-effectiveness analysis and health care rationing.
General note"A Bradford book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99020664
ISBN0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks RA410.5 .U23 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold