Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - The second sickness
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - The second sickness

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  • Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness
  • A landmark book of the 1980s
  • American medicine has been dramatically transformed
  • Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the "black box" of medical decisionmaking
  • This new
  • Fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today
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