title: Medicine and the market: a research agenda.
abstract: One of the most important developments in international medicine over the past two decades has been a turn to the market as a way of coping with rising costs and responding to calls for more freedom from government control. A full moral evaluation of the relationship of medicine and the market requires asking a wide range of questions bearing on the meaning and impact of market strategies on the economics of health care and on the clinical and public health outcomes of those strategies. A number of the leading questions are presented and some provisional answers offered.
authors.affiliation: The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY 10524, USA.
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authors.lastname: Callahan
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003132:Commerce; D032821:Commodification; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D004465:Economic Competition; D004470:Economics, Medical; D004501:Education, Medical; D033161:Government Regulation; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012106:Research; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States