Who Killed the Queen?: The Death of a Community Hospital and How to Save Public Health Care

Dressel, Holly

ISBN 10: 0773533400 / ISBN 13: 9780773533400

Edité par McGill Queens Univ Pr, Montreal & Kingston, 2008

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Fine, unread copy in jacket with creasing at top of back panel. and a short closed tear at rear flap fold top.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Who Killed the Queen?: The Death of a Community Hospital and How to Save Public Health Care
• Éditeur: McGill Queens Univ Pr, Montreal & Kingston
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0773533400
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780773533400
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Printing of the First Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Cultural Studies
  • Condo

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Synopsis

"Who Killed the Queen?" is the first sustained investigation ever attempted into the mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds in Canada during the mid-1990s, showing the effects that the loss of 20 per cent of beds has had on health care across the country. It provides very strong evidence as to who and what was responsible for bed losses that are unparalleled in the history of any other industrialized country. It also provides well-supported templates for saving and strengthening the entire Canadian health care system despite this attack. "Who Killed the Queen?" makes its arguments by means of a particularly dramatic and telling case-study. It investigates the life and death of the exemplary, 100 year-old Canadian community hospital, the Queen Elizabeth of Montreal, site of many national and international medical firsts, which nonetheless became a typical victim of the mass closures in the mid-1990s.

À propos de l?auteur

Holly Dressel is the best-selling author, with David Suzuki, of Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet and From Naked Ape to Super-species: Humanity and the Global Eco-crisis.