The Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940.
Title:
The Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940.
Author:
Schafer, James A.
ISBN:
9780813561769
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Series:
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- List of Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: 1900-1920 -- Chapter 1: The Primacy of Private Practice -- Chapter 2: The Doctor as Business Owner -- Chapter 3: Downtown Specialists and Neighborhood GPs -- Part II: 1920-1940 -- Chapter 4: New Career Paths, New Business Methods -- Chapter 5: From Center City to Suburb -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Notes on Sources and Methods -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. In this case study, James A. Schafer Jr. uses the city of Philadelphia in the early twentieth-century to show that these problems reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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