Health Care Providers, Institutions, and Patients
Subtitle: Changing Patterns of Care Provision and Care Delivery (Research in the Sociology of Health Care)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780762306442
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of science; Reference; Sociology Of Medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Sociology - General; Health Care Delivery; History; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Medical care; Science-History; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Sociology - General; Terminal care; Health Care Issues; Physician & Patient; Health & Fitness
First sentence: A major social debate is underway over the appropriate level of medical intervention in terminally ill patients.