TY  - BOOK
AU  - Callahan,Daniel
TI  - Taming the beloved beast: how medical technology costs are destroying our health care system 
SN  - 9781400830947
AV  - RA410.53 .C353 2009eb
U1  - 338.4/33621 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Medical care, Cost of
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical technology
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Biomedical Technology
KW  - economics
KW  - Health Care Costs
KW  - Insurance
KW  - Soins médicaux
KW  - Coût
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Technologie médicale
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Medicare on the ropes -- Taming the beloved beast : medical technology -- Getting serious about costs and technology -- Competition : the fix that will fail -- The cohabitation of medicine and commerce -- "Medical necessity" : an all-but-useless concept -- Redefining "medical necessity" : from individual good to common good -- Getting out from under : the politics of pain
N2  - 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 people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming
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