Research Catalog

Title

Wounded profession : American medicine enters the age of managed care / Arnold Birenbaum.

Author

Birenbaum, Arnold

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2002.

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Description

xx, 149 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "By the mid-'9Os, consumer backlash and increased utilization of the courts to force change helped stimulate a reexamination of public health policy and new legislation to broaden coverage and flexibility. Birenbaum examines where the interests of consumers and professionals have dovetailed and where they differ. He considers the health care system's future and suggested ways the system must be adjusted to provide better and wider coverage at reasonable costs. This volume is essential reading for scholars, students, and professionals in the medical field, as well as general readers concerned with health care issues."--Jacket.
• "This new study explores how American health care evolved in the 1990s, as well as the changes in public support and policy. The '9Os saw the country moving toward a realization that health care had become unaffordable - or an enormous financial burden for people with otherwise adequate incomes. Health care providers and consumers alike worried than the problem was becoming uncontrollable. Doctors saw their autonomy and control eroded, employers saw their costs rising significantly, the costs began shifting to employees, and alternative approaches to cost containment were explored."

Subject

• Academic Medical Centers
• Health Care Reform
• Health maintenance organizations > United States
• Managed Care Programs
• Managed care plans (Medical care) > United States
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Professional Autonomy
• Quality of Health Care
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Health care on the national agenda -- What's behind the changing doctor-patient relationship -- Driving down costs and professional autonomy -- The reorganization of health care delivery -- Managed care and the profession's tarnished jewel in the crown : academic health centers -- Doctors respond to the dark side of managed care -- How managed care is shaping medical practice -- Hopes for reform -- The future of American medicine.

ISBN

0275973891 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002066335

OCLC

49704870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library