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Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics (Clinical Medical Ethics) (Paperback)

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Medicine's changing economics have already fundamentally, permanently altered the relationship between physician and patient, E. Haavi Morreim argues. Physicians must weigh a patient's interests against the legitimate, competing claims of other patients, of payers, of society as a whole, and sometimes even of the physician himself.

Focusing on actual situations in the clinical setting, Morreim explores the complex moral problems that current economic realities pose for the practicing physician. She redefines the moral obligations of both physicians and patients, traces the specific effects of these redefined obligations on clinical practice, and explores the implications for patients as individuals and for national health policy. Although the book focuses on health care in the United States, physicians everywhere are likely to face many of the same basic issues of clinical ethics, because every system of health care financing and distribution today is constrained by finite resources.

About the Author


E. Haavi Morreim is a professor in the Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780878405848
ISBN-10: 0878405844
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication Date: March 1st, 1995
Pages: 224
Language: English
Series: Clinical Medical Ethics