Private Medicine And Public Health: Profit, Politics, And Prejudice In The American Health Care Enterprise
- ISBN-10
- 042996658X
- ISBN-13
- 9780429966583
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-04
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Lawrence D Weiss
Description
This book surveys the broad expanse of health and health care institutions in America from a critical, macro, political-economic, and social problems-oriented perspective. It presents a political-economic analysis that is a deeper analysis of the political influences exercised by industry.
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