The University Medical Center And The Metropolis

Author : Conference on the Medical Center and the Metropolis
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ISBN 13 : 9780598138286
Total Pages : 187 pages
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Total Pages : 175 pages
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Download or read book The University Medical Center and the Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jr. Foundation Josiah Macy (Publications)
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Total Pages : 175 pages
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Download or read book The University Medical Center and the Metropolis written by Jr. Foundation Josiah Macy (Publications) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew T. Simpson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251679
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book The Medical Metropolis written by Andrew T. Simpson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as "the largest medical complex in the world," had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s. Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores how the hospital-civic relationship, in which medical centers embraced a business-oriented model, remade the deindustrialized city into the "medical metropolis." From the 1940s to the present, the changing business of American health care reshaped American cities into sites for cutting-edge biomedical and clinical research, medical education, and innovative health business practices. This transformation relied on local policy and economic decisions as well as broad and homogenizing national forces, including HMOs, biotechnology programs, and hospital privatization. Today, the medical metropolis is considered by some as a triumph of innovation and revitalization and by others as a symbol of the excesses of capitalism and the inequality still pervading American society.

Author : Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book The University Medical Center and the Metropolis written by Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice M. Yohalem
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Total Pages : 175 pages
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Download or read book The University Medical Center and the Metropolis written by Alice M. Yohalem and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Starr
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ISBN 13 : 9780465079353
Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Total Pages : 1040 pages
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Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.

Author : Eli Ginzberg
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412836807
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book The Eye of Illusion written by Eli Ginzberg and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli Ginzberg, the dean of applied economics in the United States, has studied the changing contours of economic and social structures in American for over sixty years. A long-time consultant to the federal government, including the last nine presidents of the United States, his name is indelibly linked with the creation, expansion, and refinement of employment policy and human resource needs. This second volume of memoir reviews in fascinating detail the ideas, events, and personal encounters of Ginzberg's long and distinguished career and illuminates the principal influences that helped to shape his life and work. As in his previous memoir, My Brother's Keeper, which dealt with the Jewish dimension of his life, Ginzberg draws on public and personal history to provide an evocative and intellectually rich account of a tumultuous period in American policy. In the first part the author recounts his unusual family background—his father was an eminent Judaic scholar and his mother a social activist of decidedly unconventional attitudes—and probes the intellectual and emotional roots of his unbreakable ties to New York City and Columbia University. The formative inheritance of scholarship and social concern marked Ginzberg's career in the wider world of academia and government. The chapters in the second part relate his service at the Pentagon throughout World War II and much of the Cold War period, and provide candid and penetrating views of American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. Later chapters dealing with consultation and study missions, in the advanced and underdeveloped world, yield valuable insights into the dynamics of economic change. Ginzberg's long experience as an analyst of US corporations and foundations informs his discussion of the problems and challenges facing these institutions at the end of the twentieth century. A unique blend of autobiographical reflection and clear-sighted observation, The Eye of Illusion will be of interest to sociologists, economists, historians, and political scientists.

Author : Louise Young
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275209
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Beyond the Metropolis written by Louise Young and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities: Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, and Okayama. As prefectural capitals, these cities constituted centers of their respective regions. All four grew at an enormous rate in the interwar decades, much as the metropolitan giants did. In spite of their commonalities, local conditions meant that policies of national development and the vagaries of the business cycle affected individual cities in diverse ways. As their differences reveal, there is no single master narrative of twentieth century modernization. By engaging urban culture beyond the metropolis, this study shows that Japanese modernity was not made in Tokyo and exported to the provinces, but rather co-constituted through the circulation and exchange of people and ideas throughout the country and beyond.