Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Car

by Daniel Callahan

Book Overview

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114236X
• ISBN13: 9780691142364
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"