Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise

ISBN-13: 9780367317447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 244 str.

Lawrence D Weiss

Opis

During the twentieth century, the issue of health care burst out of the private confines of the physician's office to become a monumental contentious social issue. Giant multinational corporations scooped up proprietary hospitals and nursing homes and assembled them into vast chains crisscrossing America. The incomes of entrepreneurial fee-for-serv

Spis treści

* The Big Picture * Access to Health Care * Physicians * Nurses * Hospitals * Managed Care * Alternative Health Care Industry * The Drug Industry * Medical Services * Federal Government * Medicaid and the States * Conclusion *

O autorze

Lawrence D. Weiss is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska at Anchorage.