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The medical metropolis : health care and economic transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston / Andrew T. Simpson.
LIBRA HC108.P7 S47 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Andrew T., author.
- Series:
- American business, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Texas--Houston.
- Medical care--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--Texas--Houston.
- Houston (Tex.)--Economic conditions.
- Houston (Tex.).
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.).
- Houston (Tex.)--Social conditions.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social conditions.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Texas--Houston.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book traces how health care helped to build the postindustrial city into the "medical metropolis," a city where health care plays a dominant role in its economy and identity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965 p. 8
- Chapter 2 The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society p. 38
- Chapter 3 City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specialty Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities p. 65
- Chapter 4 "When the Fire Dies": Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy p. 93
- Chapter 5 The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis p. 120
- Chapter 6 A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charily? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship p. 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812251678
- 0812251679
- OCLC:
- 1097959481
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