Hospitals and Patients

Examines the social crisis in American medicine. Here, 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.

William R. Rosengren, Mark Lefton

Part One; 1: Hospitals and Patients: An Overview of Issues; 2: New Forms and Trends in Medical Care; Part Two; 3: Hospitals as Bureaucracies; The Hospital and Its Patients; 5: The Hospital and Its Environment; Part Three; Hospitals and the Biographical Career of the Patient; 7: The Patient in the Context of the Hospital; 8: Orientations Toward Clients and Interorganizational Relationships; Epilogue