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Article: The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships.(Review)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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The Changing Face of Health Care: A Christian Appraisal of Managed Care, Resource Allocation, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships. Edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D. Orr, and Judith Allen Shelly. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. B. Eerdmans, 1998. 240 pp. $19.00, paper.
Christians have considered the care of the sick to be a form of ministry ever since the time of Jesus. As Christians prepare to commemorate the second millenium of the birth of the founder of their religion, they cannot help but notice that health care is changing more than it ever has in the last 2,000 years. Nor can they help but notice that these changes threaten the notion that health care can be ...