The medical delivery business
Subtitle: health reform, childbirth, and the economic order
By: Barbara Bridgman Perkins
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Maternal Health Services; Health planning; Economics; Delivery of Health Care; Medical economics; Health services administration; Health Care Reform; Medical Economics; Health care reform; Medical policy; Maternal health services; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Business models and medical interventions; title: Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization; title: Academic specialty departments and scientific management; title: Dividing labor, industrializing birth; title: Designing delivery systems; title: The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine; title: Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry; title: Perinatal regionalization and economic order; title: The economic production of childbirth; title: Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms; title: Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans; title: Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor; title: Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.