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

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.

Author: Rosemary Stevens
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01/26/1999
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.12w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9780801860492

About the Author

Rosemary Stevens is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest.

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