Can a Health Care Market Be Moral? - A Catholic Vision

Klappentext Mary J. McDonough, a former Legal Aid lawyer for medical cases, understands the advantages and disadvantages of market-based care and offers insight and solutions in Can a Health Care Market Be Moral? Drawing on Catholic social teachings from St. Augustine to Pope John Paul II, McDonough reviews health system successes and failures from around the world and assesses market approaches to health care as proposed by leading economists such as Milton Friedman, Regina Herzlinger, Mark Pauly, and Alain Enthoven. Balancing aspects of these proposals with Daniel Callahan's value-dimension approach, McDonough offers a Catholic vision of health care in the United States that allows for some market mechanisms while promoting justice and concern for the least advantaged. Zusammenfassung Drawing on Catholic social teachings from St Augustine to Pope John Paul II! this title reviews health system successes and failures from around the world and assesses market approaches to health care as proposed by leading economists such as Milton Friedman! Regina Herzlinger! Mark Pauly! and Alain Enthoven.

Product details

• Authors: Mary J. McDonough, McDonough Mary J.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2007
• EAN: 9781589011571
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-157-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Can a Health Care Market Be Moral?
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, United States of America, USA, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Health systems and services