Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy: An Annual Review - Setting Allocation Priorities

Volume One discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on two substantive areas of biomedical policy beset by conflicts. Physicians, patients, and public officials are locked in new battles over whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn. Meanwhile, researchers, government officials, and patients struggle to determine who will receive experimental medical treatment, and what procedures should be instituted to protect the recipients.

List of contents

General Introduction to Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy: An Annual Review
Setting Policy Priorities for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Emerging Issues in Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

About the author

Edited by Robert H. Blank and Andrea L. Bonnicksen

Summary

Volume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Blanck, Robert H. Blanck, Robert H. Blank, Robert H. Bonnicksen Blank
• Assisted by: Robert Blank (Editor), Robert H. Blank (Editor), Blank Robert H. (Editor), Andrea Bonnicksen (Editor), Andrea L. Bonnicksen (Editor), Bonnicksen Andrea L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.1993
• EAN: 9780231074117
• ISBN: 978-0-231-07411-7
• No. of pages: 315
• Series: Emerging Issues in Biomedical; Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, Genetic Engineering, Biomedical engineering, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Health systems and services, MEDICAL / Nursing / Care Plans