Description
Product ID: | 9780691173580 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Selling Our Souls |
Subtitle: | The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States |
Authors: | Author: Adam Dalton Reich |
Page Count: | 248 |
Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Health systems and services, Health systems & services, California |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-11-08 |