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Product Description: Providing a fascinating overview of healthcare spending and cost-containment mechanisms in the US, this book explores the consequences of managed care for the community with particular attention paid to doctor-patient relationships...read more

Product Description: The author examines the profound social and moral issues raised by HIV/AIDS, criticizes current attitudes, and proposes alternative policy strategies to be implemented in the "good society" of the title. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of philosophy, social policy, medicine, nursing and law...read more

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