Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care

by Carol A. Caronna, Martin Ruef, Peter J. Mendel, et al.

Book Overview

Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles.

This book examines the transformations that have occurred in medical care systems in the San Francisco Bay area since 1945. The authors describe these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226743101
• ISBN13: 9780226743103
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"