The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / Barbara Bridgman Perkins.
| Author/creator | Perkins, Barbara Bridgman |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004. |
| Description | xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Business models and medical interventions -- Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization -- Academic specialty departments and scientific management -- Dividing labor, industrializing birth -- Designing delivery systems -- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine -- Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry -- Perinatal regionalization and economic order -- The economic production of childbirth -- Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms -- Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans -- Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor -- Re-forming medicine, reforming reform. |
| Local note | Laupus-Retained for historical purposes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003005986 |
| ISBN | 0813533287 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | RA395.A3 P47 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | W 84 AA1 P448M 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |