Description: The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundaries, and suggest broad strategies for ma
Brief description: John G. Bruhn, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Harold Grumet Levine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas Paula L. Levine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
Review Quotes: "Clearly, there are many issues related to boundaries and territoriality in the health care professions that must be addressed as we move into the 21st century. This interesting and absorbing work makes a contribution by increasing our awareness of issues that are often not acknowledged or, if acknowledged, allowed to persist. In doing so, the book may help bring about needed changes in health care organizations and disciplines." Deanna R. Perlmutter in New England Journal of Medicine