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“harald schmidt”

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  • Rationing and Resource Allocation in Healthcare

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Ezekiel Emanuel, Harald Schmidt, Andrew Steinmetz ...
    Budgets of governments and private insurances are limited. Not all drugs and services that appear beneficial to patients or physicians can be covered. Is there a core set of benefits that everyone should be entitled to? If so, how should this set be determined? Are fair decisions just impossible, if we know from the outset than not all needs can be met? While early work in bioethics has focused on ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management, Second Edition

    Edited by Catherine L. Mah, Raisa B. Deber ...
    Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals with strong field experience and extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate case study ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

    by Madison Powers, Ruth Faden ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Canadian Medicare

    We Need It and We Can Keep It

    by Stephen Duckett, Adrian Peetoom ...
    Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Getting Health Reform Right

    A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

    by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Healthier

    Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health

    by Sandro Galea ...
    Fifty essays on the state of population health from a vanguard voice in the field Public health can rightly claim its share of victories: healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face a new set of challenges, ones complicated by political and professional shifts that threaten to ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology

    A Case-Based Textbook

    Edited by Gail A. Van Norman, MD, Stephen Jackson, MD, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, MA MD, Susan K. Palmer ...
    Ethical issues facing anesthesiologists are more far-reaching than those involving virtually any other medical specialty. In this clinical ethics textbook, authors from across the USA, Canada and Europe draw on ethical principles and practical knowledge to provide a realistic understanding of ethical anesthetic practice. The result is a compilation of expert opinion and international perspectives ... Read more

    $90.19 USD