Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940.
Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. In this case study, James A. Schafer Jr. uses the city of Philadelphia in the early twentieth-century to show that these problems reflect the informal or...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rutgers University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. In this case study, James A. Schafer Jr. uses the city of Philadelphia in the early twentieth-century to show that these problems reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306189896 9781306189897 9780813561769 0813561760 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
