Medical Work in America: Essays on Health Care

by Eliot Freidson

Book Overview

Present-day health care policies in the United States are moving toward a system in which patients will be treated like industrial objects by doctors forced to work mechanically, says the distinguished medical sociologist Eliot Freidson in Medical Work in America. He offers a number of controversial proposals designed both to reduce costs and to avoid such dehumanization.
In a series of essays that includes some of his classic work as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300041586
• ISBN13: 9780300041583
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"