The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / Barbara Bridgman Perkins.

  • Perkins, Barbara Bridgman.
Date:
[2004], ©2004
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004], ©2004.

Physical description

xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index.

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBP.6.AA9
    Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 0813533287