In Sickness and in Wealth
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In Sickness and in Wealth by Rosemary Stevens
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.
--Merlin K. DuVal, M.D., Senior Vice President, Samaritan Health Service, Phoenix, Arizona Reviews in American HistoryRosemary A. Stevens is a DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in social medicine and public policy at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Stanley I. Sheerr professor emeritus in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her writings have appeared in Harvard Business Review; Journal of Health Politics, Policies and Law;and American Journal of Public Health. In addition she is the author of numerous books, including The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Policy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780465032242 |
| ISBN 10 | 0465032249 |
| Title | In Sickness and in Wealth |
| Author | Rosemary Stevens |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 1990-12-09 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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