The Medical Metropolis : : Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston / / Andrew T. Simpson.
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a simila...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Making the Medical Metropolis
- Chapter 1. Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965
- Chapter 2. The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society
- Chapter 3. City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specialty Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities
- Chapter 4. “When the Fire Dies”: Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy
- Chapter 5. The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis
- Chapter 6. A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charity? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship
- Epilogue. The Future of the Medical Metropolis
- Notes
- Archival Collections and Abbreviations
- Index
- Acknowledgments