Health policy and ethics: a critical examination of values from a global perspective

Content: PART ONE Background
 outline summaries. Why ethics and health policy. Rationale
 law versus ethics
 jurisprudence
 justice and patient-centred care. Health policy and rationing: In search of reason. Frameworks
 transparency
 national versus regional or local
 NICE roles
 the influence of common law
 alternative approaches to rationing
 conclusion
 a hypothetical example. Policy success and failure: Causes, remedies and methods of analysis. Patient care
 policy contradictions
 public versus private
 transparency and democratic principles
 human error and questions of probity
 turning negatives into positives
 summary
 international comparative policy analysis. PART TWO Ancient origins and modern approaches to healthcare delivery in China. Medical ethics, policy and healthcare delivery in China. Accessing psychiatric treatment in China. Medicine, ethics and professionalism in modern India. Health and social policy trends in Malaysia. Pharmaceutical industry, medicine and questions of ethics. Industry and the physician-investigator in the USA. Postgraduate medical education in the USA. Geneva to Guantanamo and the ethics of military interrogation. Risk and shared decision-making: questions of medical practice and social policy in the UK. Italian policy and the ethics of ECT. PART THREE Comparative analysis and future healthcare decision-making. Changing healthcare systems
 professional standards in a cross-cultural context
 the legal and regulatory environment. conflicts of interest
 integrating public opinion into risk assessment strategies
 summary.