Health Care Economics – eBook

The analytical approach of usual health economics has so far failed to adequately account for the nature of care. This has important consequences for the analysis and valuation of care, and thus for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This ebook sets out a substitute approach, which places care at the focus of economics of health, showing how vital it is that care is properly recognized in policy as a means of improving the dignity of the individual.

Whereas customary health economics has tended to avoid value issues, this ebook embraces them, introducing care as a normative element at the core of the theoretical analysis. Drawing upon care theory from feminist works, nursing, medicine and philosophy, and political economy, the authors develop a health care economics with a moral base in health care systems. In providing deeper understandings into the nature of care and caring, Health Care Economics (PDF) seeks to fix the inadequacies of the standard approach and contribute to the development of a more person-based approach to medical and health care in economics.

Health Care Economics will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in health economics, heterodox economists, and those interested in medical and health care.

Review

‘At least in developed economies, the amount of resources dedicated to health care is growing and massive. Robert McMaster and John B. Davis argue further that health care poses a major challenge to standard assumptions in mainstream economic analysis. They stress that the individual does not stand alone, and is entrenched in a web of social relations, invoking complex and varied motivations. The effect of this challenging and well-argued ebook should spread well beyond health care economics alone.’ ― Geoffrey M Hodgson, Research Professor in Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK

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