Manage or Perish?: The Challenges of Managed Mental Health Care in Europe

by José Guimón

Book Overview

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from various diseases. This is the main form of their activity and usually the reason for which they selected medicine as their profession. The notion that they should become managers and engage in activi- ties such as programming, calculating cost, assessing cost-benefit ratios, and thinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306462109
• ISBN13: 9780306462108
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 621 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 10.1"