American Medicine And The Public Interest: A History Of Specialization (Updated); Author: Stevens, Rosemary; Paperback

Author: Stevens, Rosemary
Updated Edition; Paperback
614 pages
Published: April 1998
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520210093

Updated Edition With A New IntroductionThe reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. Updated with an extensive new introduction and a new bibliography, Stevens's book chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy. She details specialization's effects on health care costs and on health care providers, and her concerns are especially timely: the implications of technology and the resulting ethical dilemmas, the issues of insurance, many people's limited access to care. As a long-time observer of American medicine, Stevens makes a valuable contriThis reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health-care system. The text chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy.