The Medical Delivery Business Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order |
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Author:
| Perkins, Barbara Bridgman |
ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3328-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $72.00 |
Book Description:
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Americans at the end of the twentieth century worried that managed care had fundamentally transformed the character of medicine. In
The Medical Delivery Business, Barbara Bridgman Perkins uses examples drawn from maternal and infant care to argue that the business approach in medicine is not a new development. Health care reformers throughout the century looked to industrial, corporate, and commercial enterprises as models for the institutions, specialties, and...
More Description Americans at the end of the twentieth century worried that managed care had fundamentally transformed the character of medicine. In The Medical Delivery Business, Barbara Bridgman Perkins uses examples drawn from maternal and infant care to argue that the business approach in medicine is not a new development. Health care reformers throughout the century looked to industrial, corporate, and commercial enterprises as models for the institutions, specialties, and technological strategies that defined modern medicine.