Health Care Ethics and Health Care Economics

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Making Health Care Decisions: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Informed Consent in the Patient/Practitioner Relationship. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, Vol. 1, 1982.

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Smith HL , Churchill LR Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum Durham, Duke University Press, 1986.

Doubilet P. , Weinstein MC , McNeil BJ Use and misuse of the term "cost effective" in medicine N Engl J Med 1986 ;314 :253-255.

Pellegrino ED , Thomasma DC A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Toward a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions New York, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp 266-280.

Ginzberg E. Cost containment—Imaginary and real. N Engl J Med 1983;308:1220-1224.

Schramm CJ Can we solve the hospital cost problem in our democracy? N Engl J Med 1984;311:729-732.

Blendon RJ , Altman DE Public attitudes about health care costs: A lesson in national schizophrenia N Engl J Med 1984;311:613-616.