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Zusatztext 'At least in developed economies! the amount of resources devoted to health care is massive and growing. John B. Davis and Robert McMaster argue further that health care poses a major challenge to standard assumptions in mainstream economic analysis. They emphasise that the individual does not stand alone! and is embedded in a web of social relations! invoking varied and complex motivations. The impact of this challenging and well-argued book should spread well beyond health care economics alone.' - Geoffrey M Hodgson! Research Professor in Business Studies! University of Hertfordshire! UK Informationen zum Autor John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquette University! USA!and Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Amsterdam! the Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. He is author of Individuals and Identity in Economics (2011)! The Theory of the Individual in Economics (2003)! and Keynes's Philosophical Development (1994).Robert McMaster is Professor of Political Economy in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow! UK. He was a co-editor of the Review of Social Economy from 2005 to 2016. He has published numerous academic articles and is a co-editor of the four-volume Social Economics collection in the Routledge series on Critical Concepts in Economics. Zusammenfassung The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care.? This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care! and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative approach! which places care at the center of an economics of health! showing how essential it is that care is appropriately recognized in policy as a means of enhancing the dignity of the individual.Whereas traditional health economics has tended to eschew value issues! this book embraces them! introducing care as a normative element at the center of theoretical analysis. Drawing upon care theory from feminist works! philosophy! nursing and medicine! and political economy! the authors develop a health care economics with a moral basis in health care systems. In providing deeper insights into the nature of care and caring! this book seeks to redress the shortcomings of the standard approach and contribute to the development of a more person-based approach to health and medical care in economics.Health Care Economics will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in health economics! heterodox economists! and those interested in health and medical care. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsForewordPreface and acknowledgementsChapter 1 - Health care economics1.1 Introduction: mainstream 'health' care economics?1.2 The microeconomics of health care markets: principal-agent theory! moral hazard! and care1.3 Care as a market externality: caring externalities1.4 The problematic nature of caring externalities1.5 Care and the socially embedded individual1.6 An alternative health economics1.7 Outline of the argument of the bookPartI - Health care notions: health economics and the biomedical approachChapter 2 - Health care! medical care! and the biomedical bpproach2.1 Introduction: health care and medical care2.2 Medical care: the biomedical approach2.3 Health economics and the biomedical approach2.4 The biomedical approach to medical care: issues and concerns2.5 Delineating medical care and health careChapter 3 - On identifying and categorizing health and medical care3.1 Introduction3.2 The array and types of health care3.3 Delivery levels of medical care3.4 Medical (and health) care as distinctive measures3.5 Some concluding thoughtsPartII - Theories of care: towards health and medical careChapter 4 - Economics and care4.1 Introduction4.2 Care in "early" economic thought...
