Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

by Adam D. Reich and Adam Reich

Book Overview

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 providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691173583
• ISBN13: 9780691173580
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"