The Corporatization of American Health Care
The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
The Corporatization of American Health Care
The Rise of Corporate Hegemony and the Loss of Professional Autonomy
In this book, the authors, as policy analysts, examine the overall context and dynamics of modern medicine, focusing on the changing conditions of medical practice through the lens of corporatization of medicine, physician unionization, physician strikes, and current health policy directions.
Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the ongoing corporatization toward bottom-line dictates. Pressures on practitioners have been intensifying with much greater scrutiny over their clinical decision-making. Topics explored among the chapters include:
Chapter 3: Medical Practice: From Cottage Industry to Corporate Practice
Chapter 4: Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine
Chapter 5: Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine
Chapter 6: Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Progressive Directions.
Conditions affecting the American medical profession have been dramatically altered by the continuing crises of cost increases, quality concerns, and lack of access facing our population, along with the ongoing corporatization toward bottom-line dictates. Pressures on practitioners have been intensifying with much greater scrutiny over their clinical decision-making. Topics explored among the chapters include:
- History of the Corporatization of American Medicine: The Market Paradigm Reigns
- Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Drug Store Chains, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager/Insurer Integration
- Medical Practice: From CottageIndustry to Corporate Practice
- Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine
- Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine
- Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
Chapter 1: History of the Corporatization of American Medicine: The Market Paradigm Reigns
Chapter 2: Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Drug Store Chains, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager/Insurer IntegrationChapter 3: Medical Practice: From Cottage Industry to Corporate Practice
Chapter 4: Medical Malpractice Crisis: Oversight of the Practice of Medicine
Chapter 5: Big Data: Information Technology as Control over the Profession of Medicine
Chapter 6: Physician Employment Status: Collective Bargaining and Strikes
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Progressive Directions.
Salmon, J. Warren
Thompson, Stephen L.
ISBN | 978-3-030-60669-5 |
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Artikelnummer | 9783030606695 |
Medientyp | Buch |
Auflage | 1st ed. 2021 |
Copyrightjahr | 2021 |
Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
Umfang | XX, 307 Seiten |
Abbildungen | XX, 307 p. 1 illus. in color. |
Sprache | Englisch |