In sickness and in wealth : American hospitals in the twentieth century /
| Main Author: | Stevens, Rosemary, 1935- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
c1989.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introdution
- 2. Charities and businesses: hospitals in the early twentieth century
- 3. A national enterprise: setting basic rules
- 4. The case for cooperative medicine: World War I
- 5. Hospitals in the 1920s: the flowering of consumerism
- 6. The political creation of the voluntary ideal: hospitals during the Depression and the early New Deal
- 7. Technology and the workers: the genesis of Blue Cross
- 8. Consolidation without jeopardy: planning in the shadow of World War II
- 9. Pillars of respectable independence: the 1950s
- 10. The drive for reimbursement
- 11. Pragmatism in the marketplace: 1965-80
- 12. Hospitals at the end of the twentieth century
- 13. The American hospital system in historical perspective.