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Infertility: Fertile ground for managed care
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With public pressure mounting and coverage costs minimal, MCOs seek a new opportunity in infertility treatment
With efficient management and costeffective medications, health plans can offer a comprehensive infertility benefit with a minimal increase in costs.
Why consider covering infertility when it is far less costly than top-dollar conditions such as diabetes and asthma? There's more of an opportunity here than one might expect:
Infertility is a medically recognized disease that impairs the body's ability to perform the function of reproduction. It affects 6.1 million people in the ...
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The materialist tropes of La Mettrie.(Julien Offray de La Mettrie's machine-man)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
; La Mettrie's machine-man, figure of determinist...functioning is anything but regular. As La Mettrie writes toward the beginning of his treatise...exactly how the human mechanism operates, La Mettrie intimates, we are forced to look outside...
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La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...for the Enlightenment. Doctor Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) was a "crucial...model of the human spirit to La Mettrie's medical model, and even those philosophes who shared La Mettrie's materialism (d'Holbach...
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Can hope be disappointed? Contextualizing a Blochian question.
Magazine article from: symploke
; ...the human being, then, was meant to function as more than the mere material substance of L'Homme machine as Julien Offray La Mettrie in 1747 imagined the human to be, then this Kantian "Freiheit des Geistes," or freedom of mi
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Rights, Animal and Human.
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ...of the Enlightenment, a minor French philosophe, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, wrote a book titled L'Homme Machine. If humans...also machines, though less refined and complex. La Mettrie suggested, for instance, that the reason apes cannot...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Animal attraction; Man and beast.(The paradoxical relationship between man and beast)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...that nobody ever stroked or patted a clock for striking the hour, in the way that animals are petted. And Julien Offray de la Mettrie, a biologist, wrote a satirical extension of Cartesianism, claiming again that people were machines too...
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A general semantics glossary (part XVII)
Magazine article from: et Cetera
; It is clear that there is but one substance in the world, and that man is its ultimate expression. Julien Offray de la Mettrie uni-substantialism. You won't find "uni-substantialism" in the publications of Alfred Korzybski, nor...
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A general semantics glossary (Part XVII).(Lexicon)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
; It is clear that there is but one substance in the world, and that man is its ultimate expression. Julien Offray de la Mettrie Uni-substantialism. You won't find "uni-substantialism" in the publications of Alfred Korzybski, nor...
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The Book of Dead Philosophers BOOKS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Diogenes, who disdained fleshly pleasures and was said by some to have committed suicide by holding his breath; Julien Offray de La Mettrie, atheist and hedonist, who died after eating large amounts of truffled pte; and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who...
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