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 … historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the …

Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States -- Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital … Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin) -- Chapter 2. Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Rate … Hospital Planning and Administration in Spain (1966-1986) (Josep Barceló Prats) -- Chapter 8. Private hospital groups in Spain …