The Medical Metropolis: Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston

by Andrew T Simpson

In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251679
• ISBN13: 9780812251678
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"