Perkins, Barbara Bridgman. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health services administration--Economic aspects--United States.<br/>Health planning--Economic aspects--United States.<br/>Medical economics--United States.<br/>Medical policy--History.--United States<br/>Health care reform--History.--United States<br/>Maternal health services--Economic aspects--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA395.A3  / P47 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.4/33621/0973