Description |
xxvi, 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Contents |
1. Calamity in context -- 2. The basis for need (1945-1966) -- 3. An emerging clash of costs and care (1966-1975) -- 4. From choice to necessity -- 5. Crisis, claims, and new connections: The first malpractice crisis -- 6. Costs, calamities, and the second malpractice crisis (1975-present) -- 7. Reinsurance and shifts in influence -- 8. The corporatization of physicians -- 9. Courting plaintiffs: Private reform of tort law rights -- 10. Terminus |
Analysis |
Medicine Liability insurance |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index |
Subject |
Physicians -- Malpractice -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Physicians' malpractice insurance -- United States.
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Malpractice.
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SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
LC no. |
91025188 |
ISBN |
0275939529 (alk. paper) |
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