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Luhrmann, T. M.

doi:10.1023/a:1013045008055

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“…Early efforts to understand managed care focused on how it transformed health care institutions and affected the relationship between practitioners and patients. First, in a special section in Culture,Medicine,and Psychiatry,4 anthropologists argued that new standards of financial accountability changed the moral economy of care in the public mental health sector (Ware et al 2000): clinicians increasingly experienced their profession as less of a "calling" than a job done "for the money" (Robins 2001:457) and the "routinization of craft" meant that quantifiable outcomes replaced long-term personal relationships with patients (Donald 2001;Hopper 2001;Kirschner and Lachicotte 2001;Luhrmann 2001).…”

Section: Medical Anthropology and The Financing Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Reform: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Dao

Mulligan

2016

Med Anthropol Q

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This article introduces a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on health insurance and health reform. We begin by reviewing anthropological contributions to the study of financial models for health care and then discuss the unique contributions offered by the articles of this collection. The contributors demonstrate how insurance accentuates--but does not resolve tensions between granting universal access to care and rationing limited resources, between social solidarity and individual responsibility, and between private markets and public goods. Insurance does not have a single meaning, logic, or effect but needs to be viewed in practice, in context, and from multiple vantage points. As the field of insurance studies in the social sciences grows and as health reforms across the globe continue to use insurance to restructure the organization of health care, it is incumbent on medical anthropologists to undertake a renewed and concerted study of health insurance and health systems.

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Section: Medical Anthropology and The Financing Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%