In Sickness and in Wealth
Subtitle: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: October 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780465032242
Subjects: Health systems & services; History of medicine; USA; General; Health Care Delivery; History - General History; 20th century; History; Hospitals; United States; Health/Fitness
First sentence: MY FIRST EXPERIENCE with hospitals was as a child, seriously ill from scarlet fever in a hospital in Britain in 1945 before penicillin was generally available for civilians.