ABSTRACT
For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I ALTERNATIVES TO THE MARKET VIEW OF HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH ECONOMICS
chapter 3|33 pages
SOCIAL CHOICE AS THE SYNTHESIS OF INCOMMENSURABLE CLAIMS
The case of health care rationing
part |2 pages
Part II RESISTANCE TO MARKET-BASED REFORM OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
part |2 pages
Part III ISSUES SURROUNDING HEALTH CARE AND AGING
part |2 pages
Part IV THE CHALLENGE OF TECHNOLOGY