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Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care a Twentieth Century Fund Book Hard cover - 1997

by David J. Rothman

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This study of US health policy explores why the drive for health care reform has failed. The author asserts that it is the employed, insured "middle class" who in effect deny health-care to the poor and that technology must al
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  • Title Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care a Twentieth Century Fund Book
  • Author David J. Rothman
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, Oxford
  • Date 1997-05-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780195111187_pod
  • ISBN 9780195111187 / 0195111184
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.79 x 0.83 in (21.69 x 14.71 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Medical care - United States - Public opinion, Medical policy - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96046368
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.109

About the author

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Trained in social history at Harvard University, he has explored American practices toward the deviant and dependent. In 1987 he received an honrary Doctor of Law degree from the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. In 1983 he joined the Columbia medical school faculty and his recent work has addressed the history of bioethics and human experimentation along with the social policy implications of organ donation and care at the end of life. Among the books he has authored are The Discovery of the Asylum (1971) and Strangers at the Bedside (1991). He has also co-authored The Oxford History of the Prison (1995).

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