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ArticleJournal of medical ethics1997

Morality, consumerism and the internal market in health care.

T Sorell

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Medical consumerism in the UK, from 'citizen's challenge' to the 'managed consumer'-A symbol without meaning?Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021
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  3. Commerce and medical ethics.Journal of medical ethics · 1997
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

T SorellDepartment of Philosophy, University of Essex.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlike the managerially oriented reforms that have brought auditing and accounting into such prominence in the UK National Health Service (NHS), and which seem alien to the culture of the caring professions, consumerist reforms may seem to complement moves towards the acceptance of wide definitions of health, and towards increasing patient autonomy. The empowerment favoured by those who support patient autonomy sounds like the sort of empowerment that is sometimes associated with the patient's charter. For this reason moral criticism of recent NHS reforms may stop short of calling consumerism into question. This, however, would be a mistake: consumerism can be objectionable both within and beyond the health care market.

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Health Care CostsPatient AdvocacySocial JusticeConsumer BehaviorEconomic CompetitionHealth Care RationingHealth Care ReformHealth PolicyHumansMoral ObligationsMoralsPatient RightsPersonal AutonomyState MedicineUnited KingdomHealth Care and Public HealthNational Health Service

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PMID9134485
PMCPMC1377204

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