Controlling medical professionals : the comparative politics of health governance
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Bibliographic Information
Controlling medical professionals : the comparative politics of health governance
(Sage modern politics series, v. 21)
Sage, 1989
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research / ECPR
Bibliography: p. [230]-244
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Momentous changes have taken place in the governance of health services. Notably, doctors now share their once unchallenged power with a host of new decision-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis to the health systems of different Western countries from a political science perspective. As such, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on the current crisis in administering and funding the health services.
On the macro level, three chapters address the methodological problems of policy analysis in the health sector; compare national standards of medical behaviour and action; and evaluate the relationship between government intervention and technological innovation in the delivery of medical services.
On the micro level, themes such as control of and by professionals, centralization of decision-making, and the use of government power to control specific behaviours are pursued through national case studies of Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States and West Germany.
At a time of concern about the provision of health care, and its unprecedented cost, Controlling Medical Professionals will be of great interest to political scientists, sociologists and health administrators.
Table of Contents
Problems of Organizational Rationality in Health Systems - Giorgio Freddi
Political Controls and Policy Options
Health Professionals in the Swedish System - James Warner BjorkmanPoliticizing Medicine and Medicalizing Politics: Physician Power in the United StatesJan-Erik Lane and Sven Arvidson
Controlling Dutch Health Care - Nico Baakmann, Jan van der Made, and Ingrid Mur-Veeman
The Politics of Health Reform - Maurizio Ferrera
Origins and Performance of the Italian Health Service in Comparative Perspective
Physicians and the State in France - David Wilsford
Hospital Planners and Medical Professionals in the Federal Republic of Germany - Christa Altenstetter
Physicians' Professional Autonomy in the Welfare State - Marian Dohler
Endangered or Preserved?
Clinical Autonomy in Britain and the United States - Stephen Harrison and Rockwell I Schulz
Contrasts and Convergence
The Structure and Performance of the Medical Care Delivery Systems of Great Britain and the United States - J Rogers Hollingsworth
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