Overview

This new volume illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. Its fourteen contributors examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. Ambulatory care, hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and health promotion activities are each critically dissected. A major thrust of the investigations focuses upon implications for the medical profession, principally how the increased scrutiny over clinical decision making by corporate purchasers and payors threatens the traditional role and relative autonomy of physicians. Varying theoretical perspectives are debated, with an additional Canadian perspective offered.

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Author:   J. Warren Salmon ,  Vicente Navarro
Publisher:   Baywood Publishing Company Inc
Imprint:   Baywood Publishing Company Inc
ISBN:  

9780895031044

ISBN 10:   0895031043
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   15 June 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Victor W. Sidel ntroduction J. Warren Salmon PART 1: Background and Current Issues The ""Corporatization"" of U.S. Hospitals: What Can We Learn from the Nineteenth Century Industrial Experience? William D. White Walk-In Chains: The Proprietarization of Ambulatory Care Howard S. Berliner and Robb K. Burlage The Profitization of Health Promotion Nancy Milio The Corporate Compromise: A Marxist View of Health Maintenance Organizations and Prospective Payment David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler PART 2: Implications for the Medical Profession Reflections on Modern Doctoring John D. Stoeckle The Futures of Physicians: Agency and Autonomy Reconsidered J. Warren Salmon, William D. White and Joe Feinglass The Use of Medical Management Information Systems to Increase the Clinical Productivity of Physicians Joe Feinglass and J. Warren Salmon The Changing Character of the Medical Profession: A Theoretical Overview Donald Light and Sol Levine Professional Dominance or Proletarianization? Neither Vicente Navarro The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship and Performance Monitoring: An Agency Perspective William D. White, J. Warren Salmon and Joe Feinglass Canadian Medicine: Dominance or Proletarianization? David Coburn Epilogue Vicente Navarro Contributors Index"

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