Journal article
Ethics in Health Technology Assessment: Understanding Health Technologies as Policies
Abstract
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies strive to broaden their analyses to address more policy-relevant dimensions, including ethics. This trend has been described as transforming HTA to health technology policy analysis. A related social science concept, technology-as-policy, suggests useful directions for integrating ethics analysis into technology assessments. It challenges the HTA field to shift its focus from ethics to values and from …
Authors
Giacomini M; Winsor S; Abelson J
Journal
Healthcare Management Forum, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 72–76
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
July 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.hcmf.2013.04.004
ISSN
0840-4704