Book Review The Economics of Health and Medical Care Third edition. By Philip Jacobs. 377 pp. Rockville, Md., Aspen, 1991. $39.95. The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The changing accountability of doctors and hospitals (A Twentieth Century Fund Report.) By Bradford H. Gray. 440 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1991. $37.50. Regulating Doctors' Fees: Competition, benefits, and controls under medicare Edited by H.E. Freeh III. 446 pp. Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute, 1991. $40.25. Too Old for Health Care? Controversies in Medicine, Law, Economics, and Ethics Edited by Robert H. Binstock and Stephen G. Post. 209 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. $50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Quality and Cost Containment in Care of the Elderly: Health services research perspectives Edited by James C. Romeis and Rodney M. Coe. 236 pp. New York, Springer Publishing, 1991. $42.95.
- 2 January 1992
- journal article
- book review
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 326 (1) , 72-74
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199201023260122
Abstract
The five books under review have relatively little in common beyond the fact that each deals with one facet or another of health care and economics. In fact, only two — those by Jacobs and Gray — are books in the conventional sense that they are the work of a single author who has set a theme and developed it to its conclusion. Regulating Doctors' Fees is the report of a conference. The remaining two books deal with different dimensions of health policy for the elderly — Binstock and Post take the high road to explore the big issues, whereas . . .Keywords
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