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The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System

by Charles E. Rosenberg

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This history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago.

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Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 362.1 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses
LCC: RA981 .A2 .R59 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Medical centers. Hospitals. Dispensaries. Clinics
BISAC: MED MEDICAL History

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Languages: English
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Published: 1987
Genres: Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 362.1
LCC: RA981 .A2 .R59

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