This review article critiques the growing dominance of market‐based medicine in the United
States against the background of existing problems with quality of care, rising costs …

Arthritis and rheumatic conditions (ie, arthritis) are responsible for major health care
expenditures and disability burdens. The impact of arthritis is not restrained by national …

What is the role of an interpersonal communication textbook? Knapp and Vangelisti believe
that part of this role is to “identify several important patterns of communication” as they …

Has managed care made it harder for patients and physicians to talk openly and honestly
with one another? Has the Internet changed the way patients communicate with their …

Description: Second edition.| Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO,
LLC,[2016]| Preceded by Health care teamwork: interdisciplinary practice and …

Many American doctors are unhappy with the quality of their professional lives. Abundant
anecdotal evidence and several surveys identify some of the factors that underlie their …

While concern about the direction of managed care has intensified in the United States, 1
managed care has been diffusing rapidly to other countries. During the late 1980s and early …

This paper explores the public health system's differential construction of Mexican and
Cuban immigrants'“deservingness” of citizenship benefits and its preparation of them for …

Latin American national health systems were drastically overhauled by the health sector
reforms the 1990s. Governments were urged by donors and by the international financial …

International investment arbitration has been described as a private system of justice
addressing matters of high public policy. Yet, despite the very high stakes involved-in terms …