Pricing life : why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.
| Author/creator | Ubel, Peter A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2000. |
| Description | xix, 208 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Basic 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 99020664 |
| ISBN | 0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | RA410.5 .U23 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |