caa a22 4500 386356572 CHVBK 20180307111855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266462300007376 doi S0266462300007376 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266462300007376 Black Douglas Royal College of Physicians of London Expensive Medical and Surgical Technology [Elektronische Daten] [Douglas Black] The very title - "Expensive Medical and Surgical Technology” - expresses in coded form a myth that is widely prevalent among those who consider the political and economic aspects of health care. Strangely, it is a myth that finds favor mainly at the extreme ends of the range of attitudes toward health care. Monetarists see it as an incentive toward increasing private provision of health care, while extreme egalitarians see it as another example of unjust privilege. The content of the myth is that there is a definable group of costly procedures, which can somehow be isolated from the general practice of medicine and surgery, after which such procedures can either be made the subject of special private provision or, alternatively, discarded from a rationed system of health care. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/3(1989-07), 308-312 0266-4623 5:3<308 1989 5 THC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300007376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 editorial jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300007376 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Black Douglas Royal College of Physicians of London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/3(1989-07), 308-312 0266-4623 5:3<308 1989 5 THC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge