Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate

by Robert B. Hackey

Book Overview

Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health care crisis are now deeply embedded in contemporary politics and popular culture. In Cries of Crisis, Robert B. Hackey analyzes media coverage,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874178894
• ISBN13: 9780874178890
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"