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The Corporate Transformation of Health Care - Part 2: Perspectives and Implications

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Illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. This work features fourteen contributors who examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. It also deabates varying theoretical perspectives.

List of contents

Preface Victor W. Sidel
ntroduction J. Warren Salmon
PART 1: Background and Current Issues The "Corporatization" of U.S. Hospitals: What Can We Learn from the Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience? William D. White
Walk-In Chains: The Proprietarization of Ambulatory Care Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage
The Profitization of Health Promotion Nancy Milio
The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
PART 2: Implications for the Medical Profession Reflections on Modern Doctoring John D. Stoeckle
The Futures of Physicians: Agency and Autonomy Reconsidered J. Warren Salmon, William D. White and Joe Feinglass
The Use of Medical Management Information Systems to Increase the Clinical Productivity of Physicians Joe Feinglass and J. Warren Salmon
The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: A Theoretical Overview Donald Light and Sol Levine
Professional Dominance or Proletarianization? Neither Vicente Navarro
The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Performance Monitoring: An Agency Perspective William D. White, J. Warren Salmon and Joe Feinglass
Canadian Medicine: Dominance or Proletarianization? David Coburn
Epilogue Vicente Navarro
Contributors
Index

About the author

Warren J. Salmon

Summary

Illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. This work features fourteen contributors who examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. It also deabates varying theoretical perspectives.

Product details

Authors J. Warren Salmon
Assisted by Vicente Navarro (Editor), J. Warren Salmon (Editor)
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2021
 
EAN 9780895031044
ISBN 978-0-89503-104-4
No. of pages 270
Illustrations Farb., s/w. Abb.
Series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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