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Modernising Health Care
Ellen Kuhlmann
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Description for Modernising Health Care
Hardback. Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Structured around the role of the professions as mediators between state and citizens, and set against a background of tighter resources and growing demands for citizenship rights, Ellen Kuhlmann's book offers a much-needed comparative analysis, using the German health care system as a case study. The German system, with its strongly self-regulatory medical profession, exemplifies both the capacity of professionalism to re-make itself, and the ... Read more
Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship. Structured around the role of the professions as mediators between state and citizens, and set against a background of tighter resources and growing demands for citizenship rights, Ellen Kuhlmann's book offers a much-needed comparative analysis, using the German health care system as a case study. The German system, with its strongly self-regulatory medical profession, exemplifies both the capacity of professionalism to re-make itself, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861348586
SKU
V9781861348586
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Ellen Kuhlmann
Ellen Kuhlmann researches and teaches at the Centre for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Reviews for Modernising Health Care
"This highly topical book is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms, putting flesh to the bone of the notion of modern governance. The author has an excellent overview of the literature in the field, showing critical awareness not only of the central conceptual issues and debates, but also of a wide range of empirical studies across many countries. Most ... Read more