Health Care and Freedom: An American Dilemma

By James Hill Parker

Book Overview

This is a participant observation study of nursing homes. It includes additional observations on and experiments in medical care and related issues of freedom, including patients' rights to die.
Contents: The Problem of Health Care; The Case Study and the Scams; The Experiment in Freedom and Dignity; The Social/Organizational Model; Experiment in Freedom What Happened to It? General Problems with the Existing Health Care System; Contrasting Nursing Homes; The Picnic and the Halloween Party; Is Freedom Working? The Freedom To Die; The Living Will.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081919302X
• ISBN13: 9780819193025
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"