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Money, medicine, and malpractice in American society / Iain Hay.

Title
Money, medicine, and malpractice in American society / Iain Hay.
Author
Hay, Iain
Publication
New York : Praeger, 1992.

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Description
xxvi, 244 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Malpractice
  • Malpractice > economics
  • Liability, Legal
  • Insurance, Liability
  • Physicians' malpractice insurance > United States
  • Physicians > Economic aspects > United States
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Calamity in context -- 2. The basis for need (1945-1966) -- 3. An emerging clash of costs and care (1966-1975) -- 4. From choice to necessity -- 5. Crisis, claims, and new connections: The first malpractice crisis -- 6. Costs, calamities, and the second malpractice crisis (1975-present) -- 7. Reinsurance and shifts in influence -- 8. The corporatization of physicians -- 9. Courting plaintiffs: Private reform of tort law rights -- 10. Terminus
ISBN
0275939529 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^91025188^
OCLC
24174337
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library