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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Barefoot Doctors and Sense of Obligation -- Chapter 3. Informed Consent and Marketization of Healthcare -- Chapter 4. Public Hospital Reform and Physician Obligation -- Chapter 5. Systemic Healthcare Reform and State Obligation -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Abstract
Drawing on recent jurisprudential literature that emphasizes the role and function performed by obligation, this article examines how the ethical doctrine of informed consent has been implemented in the context of health-care reforms in China. It argues that, while the Chinese incorporation of informed consent has sought to empower patients, the major medical laws and social policies fail to instantiate the obligations. Along with this failure, the Chinese medical laws have also failed to secure the bond of trust between them. This article also points out that a rounded analysis of the implementation of informed consent in China must take into account the obligation and function of the major components of the health-care delivery system other than physicians and hospitals, such as health-care insurance schemes.

Cancer, patient-reported outcomes, prescription medication expenditures. - Krebs, Ergebnismessung aus Sicht des Patienten, verschreibungspflichtige Medikamentenausgaben

ABSTRACTWe examine the interactions between business failures and macroeconomic aggregates, and specifically the accounts of policy‐induced changes in the macroeconomy for the observed fluctuations of UK business failures in the period 1966–2003 using the vector error‐correction model (VECM). The results demonstrate that macroeconomic aggregates, i.e., interest rate, credit, profits, inflation and business births, exert differential impacts on business failures both in the short run and in the long run. The study reveals that structural changes in the financial and real sectors during the examined period have made an impact on the way in which the macroeconomy affects business failures. In particular, business failures are increasingly reacting to monetary policy changes in the post‐1980 period. Furthermore, the shocks to business failures can generate large fluctuations in macroeconomic aggregates, suggesting the importance of corporate balance sheets in financial stability and economic growth. The paper's findings carry policy implications that are related to the survival of firms in distress and finance‐driven business cycles.