Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health CareWasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the Canadian health care system, and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 35
Page 21
... SCIENTIFIC Allopathic medicine is scientific medicine . ' Scientific medicine taught that each disease had a single well - defined cause , and that the control of the dis- ease could best be achieved by attacking the causative organism ...
... SCIENTIFIC Allopathic medicine is scientific medicine . ' Scientific medicine taught that each disease had a single well - defined cause , and that the control of the dis- ease could best be achieved by attacking the causative organism ...
Page 33
... scientific procedure in medicine excludes the social context and social values that may be at least as important as ... scientific findings ( adopting what is itself a scientific attitude ) and to remember that no two human beings are ...
... scientific procedure in medicine excludes the social context and social values that may be at least as important as ... scientific findings ( adopting what is itself a scientific attitude ) and to remember that no two human beings are ...
Page 34
... scientific research , there is little discussion of the problem of applying traditional scientific methods to the task . Methods designed to examine the impact of a single treatment on tissue samples and rats or even on whole people in ...
... scientific research , there is little discussion of the problem of applying traditional scientific methods to the task . Methods designed to examine the impact of a single treatment on tissue samples and rats or even on whole people in ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong Snippet view - 1996 |
Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
Aging/La Revue Canadienne Armstrong assumptions Canada Health Act Canadian Health Canadian Journal Canadienne du Vieillissement caregivers cent Centre choices CIHI clinics CLSCS costs cure cutbacks David Coburn decision-making defined determinants of health developed disabled doctors drugs Elderly eliminated emphasis employees expenditures focus for-profit formula Forum on Health funding Globe and Mail groups Health Canada Health Care Reform Health Services health-care system health-care workers hospital Hugh Armstrong Ibid impact improve increasing increasingly individual institutions Journal on Aging/La labour less long-term means medical model medicare Medicine Moreover National Forum non-profit Ontario Ontario Nurses Association organizations Ottawa patients physicians Policy practices Premier's Council Press problems provinces Quebec reduce Registered Nurses result risk sector skills spending Statistics Canada strategies tasks Technology tion Toronto Star total quality management treatment University women Women's College Hospital