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Trusting Medicine Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)

Trusting Medicine By Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)

Trusting Medicine by Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)

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This text provides a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the U.S. The consequences of managed care for the community are assessed with particular attention paid to doctor-patient relationships.

Trusting Medicine Summary

Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care by Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)

Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed care for the community with particular attention paid to doctor-patient relationships. The author studies this significant relationship from a social perspective arguing that shifting financial risk onto doctors in a profit-making system seriously damages patient trust. In addition this undermines overall social capital, which in turn has been linked to health outcomes.

Including case study examples and policy implications, this insightful text explores an important, though little-discussed outcome of healthcare reform and will be a welcome addition to the current healthcare literature.

About Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)

Patricia Illingworth is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and an Associate Professor at Northeastern University, where she teaches medical and business ethics, as well as health policy and bioethics and the law. Professor Illingworth also teaches psychiatry, ethics, and the law at the Harvard Medical School and has published widely within the field of medical ethics on topics such as professional ethics, truth-telling in the doctor-patient relationship, the fiduciary duties of physicians, global bioethics, the ethics and public policy of HIV/AIDS, and the ethics of managed care and other healthcare organizations.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Conflicting Values in a Troubled Health Care System 2. Bluffing, Puffing and Spinning 3. Trust: The Scarcest of Medical Resources 4. The Doctor-Patient Relationship in a Social Context 5. Conserving Medical Trust for the Sake of Social Capital 6. Law, Its Meaning, and Its Effect on Social Capital 7. Employer Leadership in the Era of Workplace Rationing Conclusion: Protecting Medical Trust, Conserving Social Capital

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GOR012663474
9780415364836
0415364833
Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care by Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)
Patricia Illingworth (Northwestern University, USA)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20050818
194
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