In sickness and in wealth : American hospitals in the twentieth century

American hospitals are unique: a combination of public and private institutions that are at once charities and businesses, social welfare institutions and icons of U.S. science, wealth, and technical achievement. In Sickness and in Wealth helps us understand this huge and often contradictory "industry" and shows that throughout this century the voluntary not-for-profit hospitals have been profit-maximizing enterprises, even though they have viewed themselves as charities serving the community. Although our hospitals have provided the most advanced medical care for acutely sick and curable patients, they have been much less successful in meeting the needs of the chronically ill and the socially disadvantaged. That, Stevens concludes, is the next urgent task of social policy.

著者

Stevens, Rosemary

出版社

Johns Hopkins University Press

発売日

1999年1月発売

価格

価格未定（税込・書誌情報提供：openBD）

ISBN

9780801860492

発売済み