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The hidden health care system : mediating structures and medicine /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ballinger Publishing Company, c1981.Description: xiii, 272 pISBN:
  • 0884108228
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1'0973 LEV
LOC classification:
  • RA418.3.U6 L48
Summary: This book makes important contributions in at least four areas. First and most directly, this essay contributes to the current discussion on health policy by drawing attention to a commonly neglected factor (the role of mediating structures). Second, the authors make a contribution to the general discussion of what directions the modern welfare state should take. Third, the book demonstrates the applicability of sociological theory to some very practical concerns. Fourth, the book contains some highly intriguing "ethnographic" studies worth reading in themselves (namely, the "closer looks" at home childbirth, the Catholic charismatic movement, and rape crisis centers).
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 362.1'0973 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008100156898

"Written under the auspices of a project on mediating structures sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book makes important contributions in at least four areas. First and most directly, this essay contributes to the current discussion on health policy by drawing attention to a commonly neglected factor (the role of mediating structures). Second, the authors make a contribution to the general discussion of what directions the modern welfare state should take. Third, the book demonstrates the applicability of sociological theory to some very practical concerns. Fourth, the book contains some highly intriguing "ethnographic" studies worth reading in themselves (namely, the "closer looks" at home childbirth, the Catholic charismatic movement, and rape crisis centers).

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