Health policy and ethics : a critical examination of values from a global perspective /

Worthington, Roger,

Health policy and ethics : a critical examination of values from a global perspective / Roger Worthington and Robert Rohrbaugh. - xii, 156 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Why ethics and health policy -- Health policy and rationing: in search of reason -- Policy success and failure: causes, remedies and methods of analysis -- Ancient origins and modern approaches to health care delivery in China -- Medical ethics, policy and health care delivery in modern China / Kwok-Yin Chan -- Accessing psychiatric treatment in China / Carla Marienfeld -- Medicine, ethics and professionalism in modern India -- Indian philosophy and bioethics / Roger Worthington -- Health care in the Himalayas -- Health and social policy trends in Malaysia / Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad -- Pharmaceutical industry, medicine and questions of ethics -- Industry and the physician-investigator in the USA / Jaazzmina Hussain -- Postgraduate medical education in the USA / Caroline Broughton -- Geneva to Guantanamo and the ethics of interrogation / Maya Prabhu -- Risk and shared decision-making: questions of medical practice and social policy in the UK / Sarah A. Lee -- Italian policy and the ethics of ECT / Anthony Marfeo -- Comparative analysis and future health care decision-making.

1846193109 9781846193101

2011293949


Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Bioethical Issues

362.1068

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