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The medical delivery business [electronic resource] : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / Barbara Bridgman Perkins.

By: Perkins, Barbara Bridgman.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004Description: xii, 252 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Health services administration -- Economic aspects -- United States | Health planning -- Economic aspects -- United States | Medical economics -- United States | Medical policy -- United States -- History | Health care reform -- United States -- History | Maternal health services -- Economic aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.4/33621/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.