Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940.

Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. In this case study, James A. Schafer Jr. uses the city of Philadelphia in the early twentieth-century to show that these problems reflect the informal or...

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Main Author: Schafer, James A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
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