GSU Library Research Guides: PERS 2002: Science Perspectives on Global Problems (Heather Martin Fall 2024): Books

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Selected books about Healthcare and Healthcare Systems

The Cambridge History of Medicine by Roy Porter (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covers both the social and scientific history of medicine. Emphasis is placed on the crucial developments of the past 150 years, but classical, medieval, and Islamic and East Asian medicine are also examined.
Economics of Health and Medical Care Packaged with Companion Website Access Code by Lanis Hicks
Publication Date: 2021
Economics of Health and Medical Care is an introduction to population-based health economics as well as the traditional, market-oriented approach to health care economics. This edition focuses on the vast changes that have been occurring in the health care industry and in the economy, most notably in the areas for payment systems and quality improvement.
Healthcare systems & reform
Publication Date: 2017
Provides an introduction to health and medicine across the world. Includes chapters on the U.S. Healthcare System, the U.S. Health Insurance System, Medicare and Medicaid, and essays about the social implications of healthcare.
Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Roger Cooter (Editor); John Pickstone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Includes forty authoritative chapters written by historical specialists but intended for general audiences about the history of medicine in the twentieth century. Some essays focus on the political economy of medicine and health as it changed from period to period and varied between countries. Other chapters focus on understandings of the body while the remainder explore the changing experiences of different categories of practitioners and patients.
Novel Perspectives in Economics of Personalized Medicine and Healthcare Systems by Romina Prziklas Druzeta (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021
Includes chapters by international experts covering the various economic, technological, sociological, ethical, legal and philosophical implications and questions arising from the development and implementation of personalized medicine. Includes chapters on methods of payment for health services, critical assessment of a health system, predictors of health outcomes, and more.
The Political Economy of the Hospital in History
ISBN: 9781862181861
Publication Date: 2020
The aim of this book is to examine this growth in different countries, with a main focus on the twentieth century, and also with a backward glance to earlier shaping forces. It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and private forms of provision, and the political context in which health systems were constructed.

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