The issue of health care reform has long been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it. Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require a more sensitive approach to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. The contributors to this work explore these phenomena.
Author Biography
John B. Davis is Professor of Economics at Marquetter University. He is the editor of the Review of Social Economy and past President of the History of Economics Society
Reviews
"Eleven papers examine alternatives to the market view of health care and health economics, resistance to market-based reform of health care systems, and social issues associated with health care."-Journal of Economic Literature Spet 2002
