...: Social and Ethical Perspectives Ronald Bayer and Daniel Callahan, The Hastings Center Abstract. Despite Medicare’s success as a social program, its future is in question because of the program’s enormous costs. Because the issue of Medicare reform has been forced upon us at...

...Irene Fraser In several areas of health policy, current concern over rising costs has generated considerable political support for reforms that many in the business have advocated unsuccessfully on philosophical, ethical, or humanitarian grounds for years. Thus, for example, the spiraling cost of...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Mark A. Hall. Making Medical Spending Decisions: The Law, Ethics, and Economics of Rationing Mechanisms. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 300 pp. $35.00 cloth. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Books Mark A. Hall. Making Medical Spending...

... market-type approaches to the acquisition and allocation of cadaveric organs (and perhaps of organs from living donors as well) that will be neither unduly offensive to ethical sensibilities nor easily abused and that may yield significant improvements over the existing system of organ procurement, which...

...James F. Childress This article provides an ethical analysis and assessment of various actual and proposed policies of organ procurement and distribution in light of moral principles already embedded in U.S. institutions, laws, policies, and practices. Evaluating different methods of acquisition of...

... California Press. Review Essays Health Care Rationing: A Problem in Ethics and Policy Robert H. Blank, Rationing Medicine (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 290 pp., $25.00. Daniel Callahan, Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster...

... supply of organs for transplantation from the deceased. Ethical issues were raised in government committees appointed to discuss the policy before its approval, but discussions among laypeople were not solicited. This study aimed to elicit laypeople's views about the policy by conducting thirteen group...

... Egalitarian Justice . Ethics 99 : 906 – 944 . Collins S. R. Davis K. Doty M. M. Kriss J. L. Holmgren A. L. . 2006 . Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey . New York : Commonwealth Fund...

...Denis G. Arnold; James L. Oakley As the pharmaceutical industry lobbies European regulators to permit direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs in the European Union, we found that five leading companies violated industry-developed and -promulgated standards for ethical...

... Ethics? James F. Childress, Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 250 pp., $24.95 There are two problems with the present emphasis on paternalism’ as a key moral issue for medicine. In this essay I argue, first, that many, perhaps the...

...Dan W. Brock Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Role of Ethics in the Clinton Reform Proposal Dan W. Brock Brown University An extraordinary feature of the...

...Dan W. Brock Troyen A. Brennan. Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. 287 pp. $38.00 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 268 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law ture. One hopes that it...

...Joseph J. Fins Samuel Gorovitz. Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 195 pp. $14.95, paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 906 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Samuel Gorovitz...

...Jon F. Merz Baruch A. Brody. The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An International Perspective . New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 386 pp. $49.95 cloth; Jeffrey P. Kahn, Anna C. Mastroianni, and Jeremy Sugarman, eds. Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research . New York: Oxford University...

...B. Lynn Whitener Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan. Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 374 pp. $55.00 cloth; $22.50 paper. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.6 09 Books 12/18/01 2:34 PM Page 1412 1412...

... “accountability for reasonableness” framework proposed by the philosopher Norman Daniels and endorsed by NICE, there also needs to be transparency about the substantive ethical grounds for public health care resource allocation decisions. In that spirit, I analyze eleven potentially relevant justifications for...

...Scott L. Greer Cohen I. Glenn , ed. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues . New York : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 454+xxiv pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The American health care industry, as this book argues, is globalizing...

...Pamela J. Salsberry Francoise E. Baylis, ed. The Health Care Ethics Consultant . Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1994. 209 pp. $39.50 cloth. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 522 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law health care services. Each also underscores Americans...

...Elizabeth Howe Bradley Annette Dula and Sara Goering, eds. “It Just Ain't Fair”: The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans . Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994. 315 pp. $69.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews 807 the political agenda had...

...Daniel M. Fox Robert Zussman. Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 260 pp. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 810 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law minority perspectives but...