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Biomedical Ethics And The Law: A Critical Perspective, Keith N. Hylton

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Health law, a fast growing field of scholarship, appears to consist largely of two schools. One focuses on health care antitrust, taking as its fundamental premise the notion that health care markets should be distinguished from and treated differently than other markets. This premise underlying health care antitrust is based on a few recurring features of health care markets, such as informational asymmetry, that are taken as sufficient bases for treating them differently.¹ The other school of health law is biomedical ethics, which has taken on increasing importance in view of the many tradeoffs that arise when health care …