Hippocrates Assailed: The American Health Delivery System - Couverture rigide

Falk, Gerhard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761814337 ISBN 13 : 9780761814337

Editeur : University Press of America, 1999

Synopsis

Hippocrates Assailed discusses the numerous changes in the American Health Care Delivery System during the past twenty years. Gerhard Falk points out that the changes resulting from the vast technological improvements in medicine, surgery, nursing, and dentistry have increased the gap between patient expectations and the availability of health care. He explores the patients-rights movement, the role of government, and the financial issues in connection with the insurance industry. Falk focuses on the introduction of the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) as an instrument of health care rationing to constrain the rising cost of medical care. He also addresses the failure of many HMOs to adequately protect and treat patients as they carefully manage profits and interfere with physician autonomy. Falk's broad examination not only discusses modern medical institutions, but also deals with the place of exercise, hospitalization, psychiatric institutions, and the nursing home, in American society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerhard Falk is Professor of Sociology at Buffalo State College and the author of Sex, Gender and Social Change (University Press of America, 1998) and American Judaism in Transition (University Press of America, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761814337
• ISBN 13: 9780761814337
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible