TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reich,Adam Dalton
TI  - Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States 
SN  - 9780691160405
AV  - RA971.3 .R35 2017
U1  - 362.11 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Hospital care
KW  - Cost effectiveness
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Business management
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Catholic values
KW  - Emergency Medical Incorporated
KW  - GroupCare Hospital
KW  - HolyCare Hospital
KW  - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
KW  - PubliCare Hospital
KW  - Sierra Medical Foundation
KW  - Westside Health Corporation
KW  - autonomy
KW  - billing practices
KW  - camaraderie
KW  - chaplains
KW  - collegiality
KW  - commodification
KW  - creativity
KW  - disciplinary authority
KW  - egalitarianism
KW  - electronic medical records
KW  - entrepreneur
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - evidence-based medicine
KW  - healing
KW  - health care
KW  - hospital care
KW  - hospital staff
KW  - hospitals
KW  - individualism
KW  - informality
KW  - insurance industry
KW  - labor-management partnership
KW  - malpractice insurance
KW  - management
KW  - market
KW  - marketing
KW  - medical paternalism
KW  - nurses
KW  - palliative care
KW  - partnerships
KW  - patient satisfaction surveys
KW  - patients
KW  - physicians
KW  - power
KW  - public service
KW  - rationalization
KW  - religious identity
KW  - residency program
KW  - resources
KW  - shared responsibility
KW  - social justice
KW  - social values
KW  - socialized medicine
KW  - systems integration
KW  - vocational commitment
KW  - vocational ethic
KW  - vocational values
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One. PubliCare Rebuffs the Market --; Chapter One. Health Care for All --; Chapter Two. Privileged Servants --; Chapter three. Feels Like Home --; Part two. HolyCare Moralizes the Market --; Chapter four. Sacred Encounters --; Chapter five. Good Business --; Chapter six. The Martyred Heart --; Part three. GroupCare Tames the Market --; Chapter seven. Flourishing --; Chapter eight. Disciplined Doctors --; Chapter nine. Partnership --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Methods --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market-hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three hospitals of one California city, the book explores the tensions embedded in the market for hospital care, how different hospitals manage these tensions, the historical trajectories driving disparities in contemporary hospital practice, and the perils and possibilities of various models of care.As Adam Reich shows, the book's three featured hospitals could not be more different in background or contemporary practice. PubliCare was founded in the late nineteenth century as an almshouse in order to address the needs of the destitute. HolyCare was founded by an order of nuns in the mid-twentieth century, offering spiritual comfort to the paying patient. And GroupCare was founded in the late twentieth century to rationalize and economize care for middle-class patients and their employers. Reich explains how these legacies play out today in terms of the hospitals' different responses to similar market pressures, and the varieties of care that result.Selling Our Souls is an in-depth investigation into how hospital organizations and the people who work in them make sense of and respond to the modern health care market
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850372?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400850372
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