, particularly for the provision of hospital care to publicly funded patients. Independent sector (IS) providers of hospital services …

historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the …The modern hospital is at once the site of healing, the locus of medical learning and a cornerstone of the welfare … glance to earlier shaping forces. It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and …

provision. Accordingly, the book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in the hospital and healthcare sector, and to anyone …