Governing the health care state
By Mick Moran
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Book Information
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-4297-3
- Pages: 208
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £14.99
- Published Date: October 1999
- BIC Category: Society & social sciences / Social welfare & social services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Politics & government
- Series: Political Analyses
Description
This book represents the first comparative study of how health policy is made in leading industrial nations. Using detailed case histories of the UK, the US and Germany, it shows that health care systems and modern states are indissolubly bound together. The author explains how the health care state originated before the rise of democracy, and demonstrates that it has had to confront the twin pressures of democratic politics and competitive capitalism. It focuses on three important arenas of health care politics--the government of consumption, the government of doctors, and the government of medical technology--and illustrates how these three arenas intersect.