Power and Illness

Author: Daniel M. Fox
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520201515
Category: Medical

Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy

During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness--even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. Download Power and Illness medical books for free.
In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities.
Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, impl Get Power and Illness our bestseller medical books.

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