Health and efficiency : a sociology of health economics

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Health and efficiency : a sociology of health economics

Malcolm Ashmore, Michael Mulkay, Trevor Pinch

Open University Press, 1989

  • : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: p. [214]-220

Includes index

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目次

  • Part 1 Introduction: the National Health Service and the economic community
  • the study and its method
  • the threefold strategy. Part 2 Colonizing the mind - dilemmas in the application of economics? what is economics? common misconceptions about economics
  • avoiding confrontation
  • the ills of the NHS
  • criticism without offence
  • technical judgements and value judgements
  • the dual programme of health economics. Part 3 Quick and dirty - the problems of intervention: rationality and irrationality in the NHS
  • insider problems
  • the pros and cons of working on the outside
  • judgements of success and failure. Part 4 "Fury above prof's kidney call" - health economists in the media: introduction
  • who's right, who's wrong and who decides? the other York - health economics under the microscope. Part 5 Measuring the quality of life - a sociological invention: an opening dialogue
  • discussion of the paper begins
  • measuring the quality of life
  • further implications are explored
  • conclusions are drawn concerning social science and practical action
  • measuring quality of life - a comment by Alan Williams
  • note. Part 6 Clinical budgeting - experimentation in the social sciences: a drama in five acts: act 1 an idea is born in a London cafe
  • act 2 why is clinical budgeting? act 3 the problems of experimentation
  • act 4 Wickings' world
  • act 5 an evaluation meeting
  • notes. Part 7 The rationalized choice - option appraisal and the politics of rational decision-making: politics, appraisal and the politics of appraisal
  • reading "Planning Hospital Services"
  • the final choice
  • which costs? numbers, anomalies and benefits scores
  • a positive conclusion
  • is "Planning Hospital Services" a poor appraisal? a brief lesson
  • notes. Part 8 Summaries, conclusions and readings: summaries and conclusions (with imaginary interruptions)
  • rational affirmation - an economist's reading
  • critical deconstruciton - a sociologist's reading
  • sceptical self-realization - a layperson's reading. Appendix: research materials
  • interviews and transcripts
  • texts
  • recorded events.

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