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The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order
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- Creator
- Barbara Bridgman Perkins
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813559476, 9780813533285, 9780813536361, 0813536367, 0813533287, 0813559472
- OCLC
- ocm51942702, ocm56823174
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-238) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- United States.
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- Economics, Medical -- history -- United States.
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- Health Care Reform -- United States.
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- Maternal Health Services -- economics -- United States.
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- Health Services Administration -- methods -- United States.
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- Health Planning -- history -- United States.
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