| Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise Contributor(s): Weiss, Lawrence D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813333512 ISBN-13: 9780813333519 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1997 Annotation: Health care is a nation-wide problem, and the social devastation in its wake is a tragedy of national scope. Existing assumptions, power structures, political and economic interests, and social organizations have contributed to the crisis. In Private Medicine And Public Health, Lawrence Weiss dispassionately questions and analyzes the many issues of the health care crisis in search of much needed solutions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 96040916 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.94" W x 8.92" (0.69 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book surveys the broad expanse of health and health care institutions in America from a critical, macro, political-economic, and social problems-oriented perspective. It presents a political-economic analysis that is a deeper analysis of the political influences exercised by industry. |
