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Edition: 1
Release: 2003-12-24
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0813533287
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
The Medical Delivery Business pdf
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Americans at the end of the twentieth century worried that managed care had fundamentally transformed the character of medicine. In The Medical Delivery Business, Barbara Bridgman Perkins uses examples drawn from maternal and infant care to argue that the business approach in medicine is not a new development. Health care reformers throughout the century looked to industrial, corporate, and commercial enterprises as models for the institutions, specialties, and technological strategies that defined modern medicine. In the case of perinatal care, the business model emphasized specialized over primary care, encouraged the use of surgical and technological procedures, and unnecessarily turned childbirth into an intensive care situation. Active management techniques, for example, encouraged obstetricians to accelerate labor with oxytocin to augment their productivity. Despite the achievements of the childbirth and women’s health movement in the 1970s, aggressive medical intervention h Download The Medical Delivery Business for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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