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April 20, 2010 5:50 AM
by Gary Sauer-Thompson
In her review of Denis G. Arnold (ed.), Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine Lisa Newton highlights the core issue: the recent move of the professions of health care from a service orientation to market orientation. This is crucial transformation and it is what sits behind the politics of health care reform with its emphasis on the healthcare institution-patient population” dyad. Arnold’s brief to the authors was: to evaluate the practices of profit-seeking healthcare organizations, and business-friendly public policies regarding health care, and to offer normative guidance regarding the ethical delivery of healthcare products and services by profit-seeking organizations operating in a global marketplace. (p. 1) Newton poses several questions: If health care seeks profit, it will surely find it — there’s nothing we want so much as freedom from pain and a long active life, and to the extent that we have money, we’ll pay the earth to get…
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