Trusting Medicine

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Patricia Illingworth

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Healthcare is a hotly debated topic in most Western societies with many countries experiencing increasing health expenditure with seemingly low outcomes. 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. The author studies this significant relationship from a social perspective arguing that shifting financial risk onto doctors in a profit-making system seriously undermines 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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

August 18th, 2005

Author

Patricia Illingworth

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

194

Dimensions

156x234x10

ISBN-13

9780415364836

Product ID

8225385

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