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Profession, practice and profits: competition in the core of health care system
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This article is published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science.The article was published on 1997-11-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Competition (economics) & Health care.read more
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Cost of Illness in the Netherlands: description, comparison and projection
TL;DR: This thesis focuses on cost-of-illness (COI) studies, and investigates what the often very large financial estimates for costs of specific diseases mean and how reliable, valid and useful they are.
Educating Future Engineers and the Image of Technology : Applying the Philosophy of Technology to Engineering Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the problem of making reforms in engineering education and highlight the significance of delivering a more comprehensive image of technology and its different aspects in the course of training students about technology and engineering.
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Technology Development as a Normative Practice : A Meaning-Based Approach to Learning About Values in Engineering—Damming as a Case Study
TL;DR: This paper proposes that technology development be considered a systemic normative practice and attempts to provide a comprehensive view of various built-in values, their different origins and features, and a way of prioritizing them in real engineering processes.
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Psychiatry as normative practice
TL;DR: It is shown how the normative practice approach provides a richer, more nuanced, and more convincing account of psychiatry's legitimacy.
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Professional autonomy in the health care system.
John J. Polder,H. Jochemsen +1 more
TL;DR: A normative approach to medical practice guaranteeing an essential degree of professional autonomy for a relationship of trust between the patient and the physician, could be combined with an efficient and equitable allocation of health care resources.