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About the Book

This book, in collaboration with the celebration of the 10 year anniversary of "The Healthcare Forum Journal", features the classic and always provocative columns of healthcare writer Emily Friedman, also featuring new material. This work brings together key writings from one of the USA's foremost commentators on ethics in health care. It is a pragmatic, socially-responsible, and down-to-earth analysis of trends and issues facing professionals and consumers.

Table of Contents:
Organ Transplants: A Lesson from Canada; Whose responsibility is it, anyway?; Decisions and default; Blaming the victim: the caregiver's conflict; Buying into the doctor's decision: more than we bargained for?; The essential element; Marketing and fear; Copycats, copycats; This thing about machines; Marginal missions and missionary margins; Out of the frying pan; Doing it yourself; What happens because of how we choose: the case of children; Rationing and health care: crisis and courage; Paradise Lost: a 21st Century fable; As long as it comes out all right; The littlest victims; Concepts of community; Managed care and managing ethics; The toad at the edge of the world; An ounce of compassion; Freedom of choice; How we keep score; Losers; I've got a secret; Just another day at the office.

About the Author :
EMILY FRIEDMAN is a writer, lecturer, and health policy analyst, and also an adjunct assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is section editor for health policy of the American Journal of Medicine, contributing editor for Hospitals and Health Networks and the Healthcare Forum Journal, and a contributing writer to many other healthcare publications. Friedman is editor of the book An Unfinished Revolution: Women and Healthcare in America (1994).

Review :
"Emily Friedman consistently delivers a timely, thought-provoking editorial on a broad spectrum of healthcare issues. She brings the perspectives of a diverse group to the forefront...be it patient, practitioner, community, or government...and she leaves us with a better understanding and appreciation for all concerned from all the angles." (Kathryn E. Johnson, CEO, Healthcare Forum Journal)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780787902254
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 239 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 482 gr
  • ISBN-10: 078790225X
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the "Healthcare Forum Journal"
  • Width: 161 mm


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