Selling Our Souls (eBook)

The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

Adam Dalton Reich (Autor)

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2014
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5037-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Adam D. Reich is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Hidden Truth and With God on Our Side.

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Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market-hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three hospitals of one California city, the book explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.As Adam Reich shows, the book's three featured hospitals could not be more different in background or contemporary practice. PubliCare was founded in the late nineteenth century as an almshouse in order to address the needs of the destitute. HolyCare was founded by an order of nuns in the mid-twentieth century, offering spiritual comfort to the paying patient. And GroupCare was founded in the late twentieth century to rationalize and economize care for middle-class patients and their employers. Reich explains how these legacies play out today in terms of the hospitals' different responses to similar market pressures, and the varieties of care that result.Selling Our Souls is an in-depth investigation into how hospital organizations and the people who work in them make sense of and respond to the modern health care market.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Accountability • addiction • Analgesic • Autonomy • behalf • billing practices • Blood pressure • Board of Supervisors • Business Ethics • camaraderie • Cardiology • Cataract Surgery • Catholic values • chaplains • Clinic • collegiality • commodification • Commodity • community leader • Cost–benefit analysis • Creativity • CT scan • Customer • Customer service • Death panel • Dialysis • disciplinary authority • egalitarianism • Electronic Medical Records • Emergency Department • Emergency Medical Incorporated • Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act • Emergency Medicine • emergency physician • Employment • Entrepreneur • Entrepreneurship • ethicist • Evidence-based Medicine • Family Medicine • Generosity • GroupCare Hospital • Group Practice, Prepaid • Healing • Health Care • Health care in the United States • health care quality • Health Care Reform • health insurance • Health maintenance organization • health policy • health professional • Health system • HolyCare Hospital • homeless shelter • Hospice • Hospital • Hospital Care • Hospital Medicine • Hospitals • hospital staff • Indication (medicine) • Individualism • informality • insurance • Insurance industry • Intensive Care Medicine • Intensive care unit • Internal Medicine • it works • Jacob K. Javits • Karen Barkey • labor-management partnership • malpractice insurance • Management • Market • Marketing • Medicaid • Medi-Cal • medical director • Medical History • medical paternalism • medical school • medical staff • Mentorship • Michael Burawoy • National Science Foundation • nurses • nursing • Nursing home care • Organizational Structure • orthopedic surgery • Palliative Care • paramedic • Partnerships • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • patients • patient safety • Patient satisfaction • patient satisfaction surveys • Payment • Pediatrics • Peter Bearman • Pharmaceutical Industry • Physician • Physicians • Pneumonia • Podiatrist • Power • Primary Care • Primary care physician • private hospital • Privatization • PubliCare Hospital • Public hospital • Public Service • rationalization • rationing • Referral (medicine) • Reimbursement • Religious Identity • Residency program • resources • Respiratory therapist • Robert Reich • Robert Wood Johnson • salary • shared responsibility • Sierra Medical Foundation • socialized medicine • Social Justice • social safety net • Social Values • Specialty (medicine) • Suffering • Supervisor • Surgery • Symptom • Systems Integration • Technology • Trade-off • Trade Union • Triage • Uncertainty • urgent care • vocational commitment • vocational ethic • vocational values • well-being • Westside Health Corporation
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5037-1 / 1400850371
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5037-2 / 9781400850372