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Medicine and the market – equity v. choice
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Daniel Callahan, Angela A Wasunna. Baltimore: The John Hapkins University Press, 2006, $35 (hardback) ISBN 0-8018-8339-3, pp 321.
In this book, the authors’ aim is to assess the evidence for the positive effects of market practices in healthcare and to provide an ethical evaluation of these market practices. It is clear from the beginning that the authors are not setting up a simple, and thereby false, dichotomy between market provision and equity in …
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