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The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order

Author: Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Bridgman Perkins
ISBN: 0813533287 9780813533285
OCLC Number: 51942702
Description: xii, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Business models and medical interventions --
Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization --
Academic specialty departments and scientific management --
Dividing labor, industrializing birth --
Designing delivery systems --
The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine --
Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry --
Perinatal regionalization and economic order --
The economic production of childbirth --
Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms --
Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans --
Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor --
Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.
Responsibility: Barbara Bridgman Perkins.
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