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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450178103321

Autore

Perkins Barbara Bridgman

Titolo

The medical delivery business [[electronic resource] ] : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / / Barbara Bridgman Perkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8135-5947-2

0-8135-3636-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/33621/0973

Soggetti

Health services administration - Economic aspects - United States

Health planning - Economic aspects - United States

Medical economics - United States

Medical policy - United States - History

Health care reform - United States - History

Maternal health services - Economic aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.