Microsft Office 2007 or Balancing Act

Microsft. Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows Vista Edition

Author: Gary B Shelly

Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to teaching the Office 2007 applications.

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Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics

Author: E Haavi Morreim

In this volume, Dick Bryan examines the influence of the international economy upon domestic accumulation, describing the process as the expression of the contradiction between the international scope of accumulation and the national scope of its regulation. Developing a theoretical framework for understanding the contradiction within Marxist political economy, he addresses the theory of value on an international scale, as well as theories of global restructuring and crisis. These issues are then applied to those domestic policies - such as monetary policy and balance of payments - that interrelate with the international economy. The author argues that the conventional theories informing these approaches have consistently failed to recognize the contradictions in international accumulation. National economic management has, as a result, reverted to explicit class politics, attempting to solve domestic economic problems by targeting the living standards of labor.

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The author provides an overview and brief history of the changing economics of medicine, followed by a discussion of the resulting clinical constraints, "fiscal scarcity," resource use, the obligations and limits of physicians' professional services, and the ethics of medicine's new economics. Morreim argues that recent changes provide an opportunity to reconsider the values underlying the physician-patient relationship as well as providing a chance to refashion the financial structure of medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Notice
1	Overview	1
2	A Bit of History	8
3	Economic Forces, Clinical Constraints	21
4	Fiscal Scarcity: Challenging Fidelity	43
5	The Limits and Obligations of Fidelity: Resource Use	69
6	The Obligations and Limits of Fidelity: Physicians' Professional Services	103
7	The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics	131
	References	155
	Index	177