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Volume 15 Number 3
Fall 1996
Technology & Revolution in Health Care Economics


FEATURES
Medical Technology Development: Limiting Regulation *
SUSAN BARTLETT FOOTE

 The Truth About Technology and Health Care Costs *
CANDACE L. LITTELL AND ROBIN J. STRONGIN

 Are Technology and Ethics Out of Step? Oregon's Experience *
PAIGE R. SIPES-METZLER

 Abandonment of the Patient *
CLAIRE M. FAGIN

 Emerging Medical Technologies: Balancing Risks and Benefits *
DAVID C. MURRAY

 Ethical Issues in Managed Care *
JOHN H. FIELDER

 Information and Medical Ethics: Protecting Patient Privacy *
REID CUSHMAN

 Technology and Health Care Driving Costs Up, Not Down *
JOEL L. NITZKIN

 
COLUMNS
Guest Editorial--Technology and the Revolution in Health Care Economics

 Second Opinion--Medicine's New Dark Age

Last Word--Expanding the Hippocratic Oath

DEPARTMENTS
Call for Papers--ISTAS'97

* Refereed article