Overview

Today the medical community faces a number of pressing issues. Molecular and high-tech medicine, despite their tremendous successes, also burden us with new ethical dilemmas: when and how to die, whose life to preserve, whether to modify genes and to create life, and how to pay for it all. Furthermore, alternative methods appear to work at least for certain disorders. They are popular and definitely cost less, while the spiraling costs of conventional medicine have led to the development of managed care and health economy assessments with controversial consequences. An international symposium in Berlin, in September 1999, sought to address some of these issues by sparking an interdisciplinary discussion gathering leading experts in the field of genetics, robotic surgery, medical ethics, preventive health and health economics, history, and law. This book contains all the contributions and seeks to involve scholars and medical practitioners who are interested in shaping the future of medicine.

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Author:   Stefan N. Willich ,  S. Elm
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789048156856

ISBN 10:   9048156858
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

I. Historical Perspectives.- Developments in Ancient Medicine — Models for Today’s Challenges? Contemporary Medicine and the Christianisation of the Roman Elite — a Parallel.- “Dying Well” and the Doctors.- II. From Alternative to Integrative Medicine.- Complementary Care in the United States.- Alternative Medicine in Germany — Personal Views of a Critical Observer.- III. Restructuring Health Care Systems.- Rationing Health Care in Germany: Constitutional Opportunities and Limits.- Structural Changes in Health Care Systems — the Advent of “e-healthcare”.- IV. New Technologies.- Minimally Invasive Robotic Telesurgery.- The Strange Case of Molecular Medicine — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited?.- V. Ethical Reflections.- Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine at the Beginning and the End of Life.- The Idea of Progress in Medical Ethics.

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