Sick to death and not going to take it anymore! : reforming health care for the last years of life /
Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of hea...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Berkeley, Calif. : New York :
University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund
©2004.
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| Cyfres: | California/Milbank books on health and the public ;
10. |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppssj |
| Crynodeb: | Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. |
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| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : illustrations. |
| Llyfryddiaeth: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931428 0520931424 0520243005 9780520243002 1417540796 9781417540792 |