Uninsured in America, Updated - Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity

Informationen zum Autor Susan Starr Sered is Senior Research Associate at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. Rushika Fernandopulle is a clinical physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and is also on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Klappentext "A moving account of what it is like to be 'uninsured in America.' May it awaken the conscience of the nation." —David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, Journal of the American Medical Association "A vivid, indignant, and important book, and it does one thing better than any other before: Uninsured makes the abandoned millions visible again. Read it." —Atul Gawande, MD, author of Complications Zusammenfassung Finds out why many Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with uninsured men and women, and policymakers, this book takes a look at one of the most important social issues in the US.

Product details

• Authors: Rushika Fernandopulle, Fernandopulle Rushika, Susan Sered, Susan Fernandopulle Sered, Susan S. Fernandopulle Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr/ Fernandopulle Sered
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2006
• EAN: 9780520250062
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25006-2
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, United States of America, USA, Insurance & actuarial studies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Insurance and actuarial studies, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems