The Medical Delivery Business

Author: Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0813533287
Category: Medical

The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order

Americans at the end of the twentieth century worried that managed care had fundamentally transformed the character of medicine. Download The Medical Delivery Business medical books for free.
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. In the case of perinatal care, the business model emphasized specialized over primary care, encouraged the use of surgical and technological procedures, and unnecessarily turned childbirth into an intensive care situation. Active ma Get The Medical Delivery Business our bestseller medical books.

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