Medicine and the Market

Daniel Callahan is the director of International Programs and Angela A. Wasunna is assistant director of International Programs at Pfizer, Inc.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Of Money, the Market, and Medicine1. From Adam Smith to HMOs: The Origins of Medicine and the Market2. A Tale of Two Cultures: Canada and the United States3. The Endurance of Solidarity: Universal Health Care in Western Europe and Elsewhere4. The Market in Developing Countries: An Ongoing Experiment5. The Market Wild Card: Pharmaceuticals6. The Value of the Market: What Does the Evidence Show?7. The Future of the Market in Health Care: Undercurrents from the Past, Riptides from the FutureNotesIndex

A timely and necessary contribution. Whether or not one agrees with the authors' conclusions, the book is essential reading for anyone concerned with health care reform. It carries out the critical task of placing our national health care debates in the wider context of justice and health care reform around the world. -- Nancy S. Jecker, PhD JAMA 2007 A detailed analysis of the differences between health care systems in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Latin America, and several countries in Asia and Africa. -- Mary Beth Kenkel PsycCRITIQUES 2007 Among the many valuable contributions of Medicine and the Market... is its potential to motivate a new program of qualitative research into the impact of different health care funding and distribution arrangements, not simply upon our bodies, but also, as it were, upon our souls. -- James Lindemann Nelson Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2007 [Callahan and Wasunna] convincingly show that, in health care, markets are famous for maximizing choice, not efficiency. -- Peter A. Ubel Hastings Center Report 2007 A book that deserves to be read by anyone concerned with health systems analysis and health care reform. -- Andreas Reis Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2007 The book will interest readers of this journal because the national case studies are alert to both the distant and recent past. -- Martin Gorsky Social History of Medicine 2007 The global survey of market influences in health care that Callahan and Wasunna conduct is extensive and complete. Journal of Value Inquiry 2007