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In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century

In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century

Stevens, Rosemary

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Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0801860490
ISBN13: 9780801860492
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Jan 26 1999
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

American hospitals are unique: a combination of public and private institutions that are at once charities and businesses, social welfare institutions and icons of U.S. science, wealth, and technical achievement. In Sickness and in Wealth helps us understand this huge and often contradictory industry and shows that throughout this century the voluntary not-for-profit hospitals have been profit-maximizing enterprises, even though they have viewed themselves as charities serving the community. Although our hospitals have provided the most advanced medical care for acutely sick and curable patients, they have been much less successful in meeting the needs of the chronically ill and the socially disadvantaged. That, Stevens concludes, is the next urgent task of social policy.

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