Crisis in U.S. health care
Subtitle: corporate power vs. the common good
By: John Geyman, M.D.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Copernicus Healthcare; BCH Fulfillment & Distribution
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Friday Harbor, Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781938218156
Subjects: Public health; Medical economics; Privatization; Health insurance; Health care reform; Cost of Medical care; Medical care; Medical policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Corporatization and consolidation in health care; title: Increasing privatization and lack of accountability; title: Increasing technology; title: Increasing specialization and sub-specialization; title: Decline and fragmentation of primary care; title: Soaring costs and unaffordability of care; title: Decreased access and quality of care; title: Depersonalization of health care; title: Changing ethics in medicine and health care; title: Religion and medicine: a bad fit; title: Growing gap between medicine and public health; title: Marginalization and criminalization of mental illness; title: Decline of physicians' professionalism and autonomy; title: Medical education; title: Rural practice; title: Teaching and administration; title: Writing, editing, and medical publishing; title: Return to rural practice; title: The post-practice years: changing political perspectives and advocacy for reform; title: Today's health care: so far short of the needs; title: What can we learn from this evolution of health care?; title: Directions toward health care reform; title: Whither the future?