American Medicine and the Public Interest
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20th century medicine
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american health care system
american medicine
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clinical medicine
doctors and nurses
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ethical dilemmas
federal government
health
health care
health care costs
health care providers
health policy
history of american medicine
history of medicine
medicaid
medical costs
medical professionalization
medical specialties
medicare
medicine
physician and patient
professional structures
public interest
public policy
specialization in medicine
technology
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- ISBN 9780520210097
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
