Selling Our Souls : : The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States / / Adam Dalton Reich.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. PubliCare Rebuffs the Market
- Chapter One. Health Care for All
- Chapter Two. Privileged Servants
- Chapter three. Feels Like Home
- Part two. HolyCare Moralizes the Market
- Chapter four. Sacred Encounters
- Chapter five. Good Business
- Chapter six. The Martyred Heart
- Part three. GroupCare Tames the Market
- Chapter seven. Flourishing
- Chapter eight. Disciplined Doctors
- Chapter nine. Partnership
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Methods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index