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First published in 1992, Quality and Regulation in Health Care
employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the
methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US, UK,
and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world, health care
systems, both public and private, are grappling with the problems
of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand,
governments and insurers argue that there must be some limit to the
apparently endless growth of health care expenditures. On the
other, patient groups and consumer advocates, already dissatisfied
by the problems in holding doctors accountable for their actions,
protest that such limits must not result in sick people getting
inferior treatment. This book examines in detail the debate
surrounding the question: How can the professional expertise of the
clinicians be reconciled with the preferences of their patients and
the economic concerns of taxpayers or insurers? It will be
essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses in health
policy, medical sociology, and health law.
This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather
than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new
servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic
vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly
unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this
title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism
of providential enlightenment, and the examination of positive
dialectics. The spectacle, in this case, is the apotheosis of the
culture industries, a total inversion of reality and of our
existences. Providential enlightenment is not only a critique of
the failure of enlightenment, but of the mutilation of historical
enlightenments. Positive dialectics signal a new era of
intellectual engagement in the construction of our historical
future. During a time in which national democracies seem an
imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all
this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. The book thus
ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions
into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic,
and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural
leadership.
This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather
than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new
servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic
vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly
unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this
title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism
of providential enlightenment, and the examination of positive
dialectics. The spectacle, in this case, is the apotheosis of the
culture industries, a total inversion of reality and of our
existences. Providential enlightenment is not only a critique of
the failure of enlightenment, but of the mutilation of historical
enlightenments. Positive dialectics signal a new era of
intellectual engagement in the construction of our historical
future. During a time in which national democracies seem an
imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all
this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. The book thus
ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions
into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic,
and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural
leadership.
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