Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies

By Kant Patel, Mark E. Rushefsky, Mark E Rushefsky

Book Overview

This work takes on an array of issues where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of national-level health-care systems - patients' rights, rationing of care, organ transplants, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, the right to die, and other ethical dilemmas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765606461
• ISBN13: 9780765606464
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"