Books by Kant Patel

This fully updated fifth edition gives expanded attention to contemporary issues including the aging of the American population, physician shortages, gene therapy, specialty drugs, the opiod crisis, and the Trump administration's failed attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.

Examines the root causes of the inequalities of the American health care system and discusses various policy alternatives. This book documents the demands on and the performance of our health care system for different population groups as defined on the basis of gender (women), age (children), race and ethnicity (African Americans, Hispanics).

The volume also includes a chronology of major laws and events in public health policy along with an extensive bibliography.

This work takes on an array of issues where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of national-level health-care systems - patients' rights, rationing of care, organ transplants, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, the right to die, and other ethical dilemmas.