Research Catalog

Title

Wasting away : the undermining of Canadian health care / Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong.

Author

Armstrong, Pat, 1945-

Publication

Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Armstrong, Hugh, 1943-

Description

272 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "Tracing the developments that have led to the current crisis, Pat and Hugh Armstrong consider from a critical perspective the people and institutions that together make up the health-care system: who pays, and how; who makes the key decisions; who wins and who loses as a result of cutbacks. They argue for a shift in emphasis, away from assembly-line provision of health-care p̀roduct' and towards a more humane approach focused on the whole patient.
• Including recommended readings for each chapter as well as an extensive bibliography, Wasting Away is essential reading not only for students in courses addressing the sociology of health care and public and social policy, but for social workers, nurses, health-care providers, and anyone concerned about health care today and in the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Canada
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health Care Costs
• Health Care Reform
• Health care reform > Canada
• Insurance, Health
• Medical care > Canada
• Privatization
• Quality of Health Care
• Santé, Services de > Réforme > Canada
• Soins médicaux > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-267) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. The Wasting Away of Care -- Ch. 2. From Cuts and Chemicals to Carrots and Condoms: The Development of Canadian Health Care -- Ch. 3. Who Provides: The Institutions -- Ch. 4. Who Provides: The People -- Ch. 5. Who Pays -- Ch. 6. Who Decides -- Ch. 7. Who Wins and Who Loses.

ISBN

0195417151 :

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries