Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market--hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three hospitals of one California city, the book explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.
As Adam Reich shows, the book's three featured hospitals could not be more different in background or contemporary practice. PubliCare was founded in the late nineteenth century as an almshouse in order to address the needs of the destitute. HolyCare was founded by an order of nuns in the mid-twentieth century, offering spiritual comfort to the paying patient. And GroupCare was founded in the late twentieth century to rationalize and economize care for middle-class patients and their employers. Reich explains how these legacies play out today in terms of the hospitals' different responses to similar market pressures, and the varieties of care that result.
Selling Our Souls is an in-depth investigation into how hospital organizations and the people who work in them make sense of and respond to the modern health care market.
-- "Choice"
Автор: Campbell Название: Seeking the Promised Land ISBN: 1107027977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107027978 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides the most thorough examination ever written of Mormons` place in the American political landscape - what Mormons are like politically and how non-Mormons respond to Mormon candidates. As a religious subculture in a pluralistic society, Mormons are a case study of how a religious group balances distinctiveness and assimilation - a question faced by all faiths.
Автор: Ferguson Название: This Is Our Land ISBN: 0813565626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565620 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.
Автор: Survant Joe Название: The Land We Dreamed: Poems ISBN: 0813144582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813144580 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America`s frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people.
Автор: Panagia Название: Public Policy and Land Exchange ISBN: 1138797502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138797505 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 26030.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thus book is the first to bring economic sociology theory to the study of federal land exchanges. By blending public choice theory with engaging case studies that contextualize the tactics used by land developers, it uses economic sociology to help challenge the under-valuation of federal lands in political decisions.
Автор: Aamodt Terrie Dopp, Land Gary, Numbers Ronald L. Название: Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet ISBN: 0199373868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199373864 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ellen Harmon White was a founder and prophet of the Seventh-day Adventists. This volume traces her 70-year path from timid teenage visionary to octogenarian speaker, publisher, and structural architect of her church.
Название: No Man`s Land ISBN: 0691160155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160153 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on a vast array of sources from US, Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, this title tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world`s second oldest guestworker program.
Автор: Rudel Название: Situations and Strategies in American Land-use Planning ISBN: 052110887X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521108874 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4909.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thomas Rudel`s book will be invaluable to all those involved in planning as well as being of interest to environmental and rural sociologists, geographers and political scientists concerned with local government.
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