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Author Hay, Iain.

Title Money, medicine, and malpractice in American society / Iain Hay
Published New York : Praeger, 1992

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 W'PONDS  KN 33.3 Hay/Mma  AVAILABLE
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.
Physicians' malpractice insurance -- United States.
Malpractice.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 91025188
ISBN 0275939529 (alk. paper)