Scientific excellence, professional virtue, and the profit motive: The market and health care reform

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-280

  Cherry, Mark J ^a  

^a ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MARKETING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROFIT; REVIEW;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STATE MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIRTUES;

EID: 0038122886     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jmep.28.3.259.14589     Document Type: Review

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