The social medicine reader /Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
- 2nd ed.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- 3 v. ; 24 cm.
v. 1. Patients, doctors, and illness / edited by Nancy M.P. King ... [et al.] -- v. 2. Social and cultural contributions to health, difference, and inequality / edited by Gail E. Henderson ... [et al.]. -- v. 3. Health policy, markets, and medicine / edited by Jonathan Oberlander ... [et al.].
Preface to the Second Edition vii Introduction 1
Part I The Uninsured, Health Care Costs, and Public Programs
The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowherel, /onathan Oberlander s Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care, Uwe E. Reinhardt 25 From Bismarck to Medicare-A Brief History of Medical Care Payment in America, Donald L. M adison 3 I The Sad History of Health Care Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Drew E. Altman and Larry Levit t 67 The Unsurprising Surprise of Renewed Health Care Cost Inflation, Henry /. Aaron 70 The Not-So-Sad History of Medicare Cost Containment as Told in One Chart, Thomas Bodenheimer 73 Medicaid and Medicare: The Unanticipated Politics of Public Insurance Programs, Lawrence D. Brown and Michael S. Sparer 76
Part II Managed Care, Markets, and Rationing
Bedside Manna, Deborah Stone 95
Must Good HMOS Go Bad? The Commercialization of Prepaid Group Health Care, Robert Kuttner 107 Defending My Life, Geov Parrish r 19 Business vs. Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards for Managed Care, Wendy K. Mariner 128 The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation, George f. Annt1s r 50 Ethics of Queuing for Coronary Artery Bypass Graf ting in Canada, fafna L. Cox 158 Rationing in Practice: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization, Sharon Redmayne and Rudolf Klein 167 Part Ill International Perspectives and Emerging Issues Reforming the Health Care System: The Universal Dilemma, Uwe E. Reinhardt 179 Health Care in Four Nations, Thomas Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach 199 Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda, Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook 2 30 What's Ahead for Health Insurance in the United States?, Victor R. Fuchs 240
Luxury Primary Care-Market Innovation or Threat to Access , Troyen A. Brennan 246 Correspondence: Response to "Luxury Primary Care" 25 5 Limiting Health Care for the Old, Daniel Callahan 260 Scapegoating the Aged: Intergenerational Equity and Age-Based Rationing, Robert H. Binstock 267