False Hopes
eBook - ePub

False Hopes

Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

False Hopes

Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure

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This ground-breaking book by one of the nation's leading experts on medical ethics, Daniel Callahan, traces the root cause of America's health-care crisis not to inefficient organization or waste, but rather to society's and the medical community's relentless quest for perfection.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1998
ISBN
9781439136416
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER ONE Creating a Sustainable Medicine
  6. CHAPTER TWO Arguing with Success: Progress and the Medical Dream
  7. CHAPTER THREE Sustainable Technology: A Medical Oxymoron?
  8. CHAPTER FOUR Two-faced Nature: Medical Friend or Medical Foe?
  9. CHAPTER FIVE Self, Society, and Suffering
  10. CHAPTER SIX Public Health and Personal Responsibility
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN Can This Marriage Succeed? Medicine and the Market
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT Equity and a Steady-State Medicine
  13. CHAPTER NINE Sustainable Medicine, Sustainable Hope
  14. Notes
  15. Index