Medicine and the Market: Equity V. Choice

by Angela Wasunna, Daniel Callahan, Angela A. Wasunna

Book Overview

Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine

Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings.

Tracing the path that market practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883393
• ISBN13: 9780801883392
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A thoughtful and well-researched tour of the state of affairs

This is a thoughtful and well-researched study of how the tension between competing ideologies - health as a right vs. health as a commodity - has been playing out in the U.S. and abroad. Emanating from the well-respected nonpartisan Hastings Center, this book is an excellent choice for one wanting to get up to speed on the broad ideas underlying health policy conflicts.