TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaufman,Sharon R.
TI  - Ordinary medicine: extraordinary treatments, longer lives, and where to draw the line 
T2  - Critical global health
SN  - 9780822359029
AV  - RA395.A3 K385 2015
U1  - 362.10973 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Durham, London
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - University of South Alabama
KW  - gnd
KW  - Medical care
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Medical care, Cost of
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Health Services
KW  - Ethics, Medical
KW  - Attitude to Health
KW  - Standard of Care
KW  - Age Factors
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - fast
KW  - Medizinische Versorgung
KW  - Sterben
KW  - sao
KW  - Medicinsk etik
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index; Diagnosing Twenty-First-Century health care -- The quandary and unexamined ordinariness of Twenty-First-Century medicine -- Ordinary medicine in our aging society: the dilemma of longevity -- The chain of health care drivers -- The medical-industrial complex I: evidence-based medicine, the biomedical -- Economy, and the ascendance of clinical trials -- The medical-industrial complex II: access, industry, and the clinical trials -- Phenomenon -- "Reimbursement is critical for everything": medicare and the ethics of managing life -- Medicine's changing means and ends -- Standard and necessary treatments: the changing means and ends of technology -- Family matters: kidneys and new forms of care -- Influencing the character of the future: prognosis, risk, and time left -- For whose benefit? Our shared quandary -- Toward a new social contract?
N2  - Most of us want and expect medicine's miracles to extend our lives. In today's aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see -- it's being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance companies. In Ordinary Medicine, Sharon R. Kaufman investigates what drives that storm's "more is better" approach to medicine: a nearly invisible chain of social, economic, and bureaucratic forces that has made once-extraordinary treatments seem ordinary, necessary, and desirable. Since 2002, Kaufman has listened to hundreds of older patients, their physicians, and family members express their hopes, fears, and reasoning as they faced the line between enough and too much intervention. Their stories anchor Ordinary Medicine. Today's medicine, Kaufman contends, shapes nearly every American's experience of growing older, and ultimately medicine is undermining its own ability to function as a social good
ER  -