The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order

The medical delivery business : health reform, childbirth, and the economic order / Barbara Bridgman Perkins.

Author/creator	Perkins, Barbara Bridgman
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Description	xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Health services administration--Economic aspects --United States. Health planning--Economic aspects --United States. Medical economics--United States. Medical policy--United States --History. Health care reform--United States --History. Maternal health services--Economic aspects --United States. Medical care--Economics --United States. Medical economics--History --United States. Health care reform--United States. Maternal health services--Economics --United States. Delivery of Health Care--economics --United States. Economics, Medical--history --United States. Health Care Reform--United States. Maternal Health Services--economics --United States. History of Medicine. History, 20th Century.

Contents	Business models and medical interventions -- Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization -- Academic specialty departments and scientific management -- Dividing labor, industrializing birth -- Designing delivery systems -- The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine -- Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry -- Perinatal regionalization and economic order -- The economic production of childbirth -- Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms -- Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans -- Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor -- Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.
Local note	Laupus-Retained for historical purposes.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-238) and index.
LCCN	2003005986
ISBN	0813533287 (hbk. : alk. paper)