The medical delivery business

Perkins, Barbara Bridgman.

The medical delivery business health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / [electronic resource] : Barbara Bridgman Perkins. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004. - xii, 252 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index.

Business models and medical interventions -- Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization -- Academic specialty departments and scientific management -- Dividing labor, industrializing birth -- Designing delivery systems -- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine -- Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry -- Perinatal regionalization and economic order -- The economic production of childbirth -- Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms -- Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans -- Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor -- Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.


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Health services administration--Economic aspects--United States.
Health planning--Economic aspects--United States.
Medical economics--United States.
Medical policy--History.--United States
Health care reform--History.--United States
Maternal health services--Economic aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

RA395.A3 / P47 2004eb

338.4/33621/0973