Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Business models and medical interventions
  • Medical specialism and early-twentieth-century economic organization
  • Academic specialty departments and scientific management
  • Dividing labor, industrializing birth
  • Designing delivery systems
  • The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and corporate organization of medicine
  • Regional health planning and the economic organization of the medical industry
  • Perinatal regionalization and economic order
  • The economic production of childbirth
  • Competing for the birth market: providers, procedures, and paradigms
  • Capital intensive medicine and academic practice plans
  • Managing birth: managed care and active management of labor
  • Re-forming medicine, reforming reform.