Health Policy and Ethics: A Critical Examination of Values from a Global Perspective
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the authors -- Contributors -- Part 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why ethics and health policy -- 3 Health policy and rationing: in search of reason -- 4 Policy success and failure: causes, remedies and methods of analysis -- Part 2 -- 5 Ancient origins and modern approaches to health care delivery in China -- a) Medical ethics, policy and health care delivery in modern China -- b) Accessing psychiatric treatment in China -- 6 Medicine, ethics and professionalism in modern India -- a) Indian philosophy and bioethics -- b) Health care in the Himalayas -- 7 Health and social policy trends in Malaysia -- 8 Pharmaceutical industry, medicine and questions of ethics -- a) Industry and the physician-investigator in the USA -- b) Postgraduate medical education in the USA -- 9 Geneva to Guantanamo and the ethics of interrogation -- 10 Risk and shared decision-making: questions of medical practice and social policy in the UK -- 11 Italian policy and the ethics of ECT -- Part 3 -- 12 Comparative analysis and future health care decision-making -- Index