Dissecting American Health Care
by Douglas Kamerow
Publisher: RTI Press 2011
ISBN/ASIN: 1934831069
ISBN-13: 9781934831069
Number of pages: 167
Description:
The intersection of health care, politics, and policy is a controversial one, and this book of lively essays takes on many of today's hot health topics: alternative medicine, health care reform, screening mammograms, taxes to change behavior, gun control, and many more.
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