The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / Barbara Bridgman Perkins.
- Perkins, Barbara Bridgman.
- Date:
- [2004], ©2004
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
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Location Status History of MedicineCBP.6.AA9Open shelves
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- 0813533287