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

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 …

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