Citation
(2001), "Medical Challenges for the New Millennium: An Interdisciplinary Task", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 14 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2001.06214dae.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Medical Challenges for the New Millennium: An Interdisciplinary Task
Medical Challenges for the New Millennium: An Interdisciplinary Task
Willich, S.N. and Elm, S. (Eds)Kluwer Academic Publishers2001ISBN 0 7923 6904 1
Today the medical community faces a number of pressing issues. Molecular and high-tech medicine, despite their tremendous successes, also burden us with new ethical dilemmas: when and how to die, whose life to preserve, whether to modify genes and to create life, and how to pay for it all. Furthermore, alternative methods appear to work at least for certain disorders. They are popular and definitely cost less, while the spiralling costs of conventional medicine have led to the development of managed care and health economy assessments with controversial consequences. An international symposium in Berlin, in September 1999, sought to address some of these issues by sparking an interdisciplinary discussion between leading experts in the field of genetics, robotic surgery, medical ethics, preventive health and heath economics, history, and law. This book contains all the contributions and seeks to involve scholars and medical practitioners who are interested in shaping the future of medicine.