1st Edition

Private Medicine and Public Health Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise

By Lawrence D Weiss Copyright 1997
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book surveys the broad expanse of health and health care institutions in America from a critical, macro, political-economic, and social problems-oriented perspective. It presents a political-economic analysis that is a deeper analysis of the political influences exercised by industry.

    Preface -- The Big Picture -- Access to Health Care -- Physicians -- Nurses -- Hospitals -- Managed Care -- Alternative Health Care Industry -- The Drug Industry -- Medical Services -- Federal Government -- Medicaid and the States -- Conclusion -- About the Book and Author

    Biography

    Lawrence D. Weiss is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska at Anchorage.