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Medical work in America : essays on health care / Eliot Freidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freidson, Eliot, 1923-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--United States.
- United States.
- Physician and patient.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- In this collection of essays, the distinguished medical sociologist Eliot Freidson examines the current status of the American medical profession. Showing that present-day health care policies and increasingly restrictive health insurance contracts adversely affect both doctor-patient and colleague relationships, Freidson offers a number of controversial proposals designed to avoid dehumanization of patients while reducing costs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0300041578
- 0300041586
- OCLC:
- 19264615
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