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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2007

WILLIAM S. ANDERECK  and
ALBERT R. JONSEN
WILLIAM S. ANDERECK
Affiliation:
Program in Medicine and Human Values at the California Pacific Medical Center, the California Medical Association, and the San Francisco Zoo
ALBERT R. JONSEN
Affiliation:
Program in Medicine and Human Values, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
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These last words are titled “Conclusion,” but they should be “Inception.” Professor Jacob Needleman encourages a vigorous conversation about commercialism in medicine. An honest conversation, he maintains, will spur understanding, indignation, and reformation. We do sincerely hope that such a conversation begins and is carried on to meaningful change. However, as the essays in this collection show, that conversation must take place in many different places and about many different things. All of our authors acknowledge that the problem of commercialism is extremely complex. It cannot be understood as a simple fact or a single feature of modern healthcare. Thus, the conversation that discusses it must be varied and diverse.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: COMMERCIALISM IN MEDICINE
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 2007 , pp. 439 - 442
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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