ISBN: 3540427821
TITLE: Rationig in Medicine
AUTHOR: Breyer et al. (Eds.)
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Introduction
F. Breyer, H. Kliemt, F. Thiele 1
I Rationing in international Perspective
Rationing: Distribution, Limitation, or Denial? - Against Conceptual Confusion in the Debate about Health Care Systems
S.Hahn 7
A Note on the Semantics of Rationing as Limitation
C. Schultheiss 21
Prioritizing and Rationing
H.-H. Raspe 31
The Practice of Rationing Health Care in the United Kingdom
D.J. Hunter 39
Comment on Professor David Hunter's Talk
B. Schne-Seifert 53
II Practices of Rationing in Germany
Rationing in Intensive Care Medicine 59
M. Imhoff
Panel: Global Budgets and Rationing
Rationing is inevitable: Modem Medicine as a Victim of its own Success
W. Krmer 75
Rationing in Medicine: Some Issues in the Light of Economic Theory
P. Zweifel 77
Rationing in Medicine: Cost Containment versus Quality Improvement
C. Szymkowiak 81
III Rationing, Ethics, and the Law
The Impact of the German Constitution on Rationing in Medicine
J. Taupitz 87
Rationing Yes, Politics No. For a Right-based Approach in Rationing Medical Goods
M. Baurmann 95
Rationing - Basic Philosophical Principles and the Practice
W. Lbbe 105
IV The Future of Rationing
Complementarity of Private and Public Insurance
J. Fritze 121
Rationing of Health Care and the Complementarity of Private and Public Insurance
A. Wambach 127
Summary Thoughts
H. Kliemt 131
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