This book examines the current social crisis in American
medicine. The authors, two well-known sociologists, search out--and
find--the roots of this crisis in three areas: the organization of
the hospital, the attitudes of the hospital toward its patients,
and the relationship of hospitals to one another.
Rosengren and Lefton apply the latest theories of organization
to each of these areas and give special attention to the urgent
need for more and better organization of medical care as well as to
new ways of delivering it. In doing so they carry out a
sociological examination of today's hospital that is of far broader
scope than has been achieved until now.
By combining a summary of sociological research on hospitals
with a new theoretical approach to relevant patterns of
organization the authors make available a readable book of
immediate usefulness not only to researchers and scholars but also
to students and teachers in medical sociology, hospital
administration, and community organization as well as in social
science courses offered in medical schools and schools of
nursing.
"William R. Rosengren" is emeritus professor of sociology. He
has been a Senior Research Fulbright Scholar at Aberdeen Medical
School and a research sociologist at a children's psychiatric
hospital. He has published numerous scholarly articles and is
co-editor and a contributor to "Organizational Membership."
"Mark Lefton" was professor in the department of sociology and
anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. He has headed
research projects for the U.S. Public Health Service and the
National Institute of Mental Health. Co-author of "Women after
Treatment," he has co-edited and contributed to several books in
related fields.
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