The Changing Face of Health Care: a Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation and Patient-caregiver Relationships

Publisher Marketing: The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of heath care today, from four different perspectives. Next, the volume addresses foundational questions, including the nature of medicine, nursing, and justice. Surveyed next are the changing economics of health care as well as the impact of these changes on such areas as mental health care, long-term care, health care for minorities, and legal malpractice. The dosing section of the book often several alternative models for health care funding and delivery that reflect Christian values. Publisher Marketing: In response to the many changes currently going on in health care, this book offers the combined insight and wisdom of a stellar group of scholars and professionals with extensive experience in the health care field. The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of health care today, from four different perspectives. It then addresses foundational questions, including the nature of medicine, nursing, and justice. Surveyed next are the changing economics of health care as well as the impact of these changes on such areas as mental health care, long-term care, health care for minorities, and legal malpractice. The closing section of the book assesses from a Christian perspective available constructive alternatives, including creative funding strategies with special attention to the needs of poor persons, physician unions, and the use of "alternative medicine" therapies. Contributor Bio:  Kilner, John Frederic Kilner is director of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Bannockburn, Illinois. Contributor Bio:  Orr, Robert D Robert D. Orr, M. D., C. M., has been a medical professional for forty years. Named Vermont Family Doctor of the Year in 1989, he has served as Director of Clinical Ethics and professor of family medicine at Loma Linda University and as Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has written extensively in the field and continues to lecture internationally on medical ethics.