Somers, Anne Ramsay <br/><br/>
Health and health care :  policies in perspective / 
Anne Ramsay Somers and Herman M. Somers 
 - Maryland Heights, Missouri :  Aspen Systems Corporation,  c1977 
 - xvii, 516 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue. Medical science: the sorcerer's apprentice? -- Part I. The principal actors and some of their problems -- Part II. Assuring access: central aim of public policy during the 1950s and 1960s -- Part III. Inflation, frustration, and the search for new policies -- Part IV. A proposed framework for health and health care policies -- Epilogue. Health care, technology, and the political system: The sorcerer's apprentice revisited -- Appendix -- Index. 
<br/><br/> The spectacular development of health care during the past quarter century into one of the nation's largest and most pervasive industries has made it a major arena of public policy controversy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>912862459 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>MEDICAL POLICY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA 395 .S66 1977