Catastrophic Diseases: Who Decides What?

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.

--Edward Chase, Camden Law Journal

This is a paperback reissue of a monograph published in 1975 by the Russell Sage Foundation. The study is an analysis of the issues related to catastrophic diseases and the biomedical innovations developed in response to them. . . . The book's purpose is not merely examination of these issues but construction of a framework for their analysis that will be stimulating to scholars and useful to medical and societal decisionmakers. . . . [The] main points of the model represent sound and significant proposals.

--John J. Lally, Contemporary Sociology

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.

--Edward Chase, Camden Law Journal

This is a paperback reissue of a monograph published in 1975 by the Russell Sage Foundation. The study is an analysis of the issues related to catastrophic diseases and the biomedical innovations developed in response to them. . . . The book's purpose is not merely examination of these issues but construction of a framework for their analysis that will be stimulating to scholars and useful to medical and societal decisionmakers. . . . [The] main points of the model represent sound and significant proposals.

--John J. Lally, Contemporary Sociology

-An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.-

--Edward Chase, Camden Law Journal

-This is a paperback reissue of a monograph published in 1975 by the Russell Sage Foundation. The study is an analysis of the issues related to catastrophic diseases and the biomedical innovations developed in response to them. . . . The book's purpose is not merely examination of these issues but construction of a framework for their analysis that will be stimulating to scholars and useful to medical and societal decisionmakers. . . . [The] main points of the model represent sound and significant proposals.-

--John J. Lally, Contemporary Sociology