Title Crisis in U.S. health care: corporate power vs. the common good / John Geyman, M.D.

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Friday Harbor, Washington : Copernicus Healthcare, [2017]

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Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	362.1042 GEYMAN	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition
Description	380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Corporatization and consolidation in health care -- Increasing privatization and lack of accountability -- Increasing technology -- Increasing specialization and sub-specialization -- Decline and fragmentation of primary care -- Soaring costs and unaffordability of care -- Decreased access and quality of care -- Changing ethics in medicine and health care -- Religion and medicine: a bad fit -- Growing gap between medicine and public health -- Marginalization and criminalization of mental illness -- Decline of physicians' professionalism and autonomy -- Medical education -- Rural practice -- Teaching and administration -- Writing, editing, and medical publishing -- Return to rural practice -- The post-practice years: changing political perspectives and advocacy for reform -- Today's health care: so far short of the needs -- What can we learn from this evolution of health care? -- Directions toward health care reform -- Whither the future?
Subject	Health care reform -- United States.
	Health insurance -- United States.
	Medical care -- United States.
	Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
	Medical economics -- United States.
	Medical policy -- United States.
	Privatization -- United States.
	Public health -- United States.
	Health care reform. (OCoLC)fst00952850
	Health insurance. (OCoLC)fst01715839
	Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
	Medical care, Cost of. (OCoLC)fst01013902
	Medical economics. (OCoLC)fst01014004
	Medical policy. (OCoLC)fst01014505
	Privatization. (OCoLC)fst01077649
	Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Health Care Reform.
ISBN	1938218159 (paperback)
	9781938218156 (paperback)

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