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Merger Games
Judith P. Swazey
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Description for Merger Games
Hardback. The story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; JNMN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 590.
The story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation
The story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439907177
SKU
V9781439907177
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About Judith P. Swazey
Judith Swazey is an independent scholar and an Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her publications, which have focused on social, ethical, and policy issues in biomedical research, health care, and professional education, include In Sickness and in Health: Social Dimensions of Medical Care (with Ralph Hingson, Norman Scotch, and ... Read more
Reviews for Merger Games
"Swazey writes a detailed history.... [She] reveals the difficulty of merging the nonprofit, for-profit, and medical education cultures of American health care. She shows how a combination of corporate hubris, ambitious vision, and the sheer complexity of the merger—with its many players and multiple allegiances—doomed it to fail. The book demonstrates on a micro level the complexity of American health ... Read more