In sickness and in wealth : American hospitals in the twentieth century
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In sickness and in wealth : American hospitals in the twentieth century
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
Johns Hopkins pbks. ed
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Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1989
Includes updated preface for 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-418) and index
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American hospitals are unique: a combination of public and private institutions that are at once charities and businesses, social welfare institutions and icons of U.S. science, wealth, and technical achievement. In Sickness and in Wealth helps us understand this huge and often contradictory "industry" and shows that throughout this century the voluntary not-for-profit hospitals have been profit-maximizing enterprises, even though they have viewed themselves as charities serving the community. Although our hospitals have provided the most advanced medical care for acutely sick and curable patients, they have been much less successful in meeting the needs of the chronically ill and the socially disadvantaged. That, Stevens concludes, is the next urgent task of social policy.
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