Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface xxiii Acknowledgments xxv About the Author xxvi Foreword xxvii 1 Choices: Money, Medicine, and Health 1 2 Demand and Supply 23 3 Cost Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 44 4 Health Insurance: Financing Medical Care 69 5 Insurance Contracts and Managed Care 96 6 Physicians 124 7 Medical Education, Organization, and Business Practices 146 8 Hospitals 172 9 Management and Regulation of Hospital Costs 191 10 Long-Term Care 212 11 Pharmaceuticals 236 12 Financing and Ownership of Health Care Providers 259 13 Macroeconomics of Medical Care 292 14 The Role of Government and Public Goods 319 15 History, Demography, and the Growth of Modern Medicine 347 16 International Comparisons of Health and Health Expenditures 372 17 Economic Evaluation of Health Policy: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 408 18 Value for Money in the Future of Health Care 427 Glossary 443 Index 453…”

“…"There were only three decades in British history when it was the norm for patients to pay the hospital; those between the end of the First World War and the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meeting Michael -- So this is college -- From diagnosis through the early childhood years -- The most difficult childhood years -- Childhood after the hospital -- Becoming a "man" at age thirteen -- High school : things greatly improve -- The world of work and the rough road to success -- Adult life -- Being Michael : multiple perspectives -- Being Michael : from Michael -- Reviewing my life for this book : essay from Michael…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field…”

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