American Medicine and the Public Interest - A History of Specialization

The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. Updated with an extensive new introduction and a new bibliography, Stevens's book chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy. She details specialization's effects on health care costs and on health care providers, and her concerns are especially timely: the implications of technology and the resulting ethical dilemmas, the issues of insurance, many people's limited access to care. As a long-time observer of American medicine, Stevens makes a valuable contribution to the current debate on how best to provide--and pay for--a high level of medical care in this country.

About the author

Rosemary Stevens is Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her books are In Sickness and in Wealth (1989) and, with Robert Stevens, Welfare Medicine in America (1974).

Summary

This reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health-care system. The text chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Stevens, Stevens Rosemary
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.1998
• EAN: 9780520210097
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21009-7
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, History of Medicine, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Central / national / federal government policies, Public health and preventive medicine, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care