Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Comparing Organized Medicine and Health Policies in France and the United States
  • Chapter 2. Unity and Fragmentation of the French State
  • Chapter 3. The Fragmentation of the Stateless State: The Effects of Absolute Liberalism on Politics in the United States
  • Chapter 4. Cohesion and Fragmentation of Organized Medicine in France and the United States
  • Chapter 5. The Continuity of Crisis: Patterns of Making Health Policy in France, 1978-1990.
  • Chapter 6. Policy Issues in France: State Reforms and Medical Resistance
  • Chapter 7. Public and Private Forces in the American Health Universe
  • Chapter 8. Patterns of Making Health Policy in France and the United States
  • Chapter 9. Consequences for the Political Activites of Organized Medicine
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Glossary of Abbreviations
  • Appendix B: Medical Unions and Associations in the French Hospital Sector
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.