David Rosner

A Once Charitable Enterprise

Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885 1915

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of dramatic changes in hospital care in turn-of-the-century New York, first published in 1982.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521242172
• ISBN-10: 0521242177
• Artikelnr.: 34744208

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Health care and community change
2. Embattled benefactors: the crisis in hospital financing
3. Social class and hospital care
4. Conflict in the new hospital
5. Taking control: political reform and hospital governance
6. Consolidating control over the small dispensary: the doctors, the city and the state
7. The battle for Morningside Heights: power and politics in the boardroom of New York Hospital
8. Looking backward
Notes on sources
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.