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The medical metropolis : health care and economic transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston /

"This book traces how health care helped to build the postindustrial city into the "medical metropolis," a city where health care plays a dominant role in its economy and identity"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simpson, Andrew T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:American business, politics, and society.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1 Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965
  • ch. 2 The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society
  • ch. 3 City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specially Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities
  • ch. 4 "When the Fire Dies": Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy
  • ch. 5 The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis
  • ch. 6 A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charity? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship.