TY - BOOK AU - Somers, Anne Ramsay AU - Somers, Herman M. TI - Health and health care: policies in perspective SN - 912862459 AV - RA 395 .S66 1977 PY - 1977/// CY - Maryland Heights, Missouri PB - Aspen Systems Corporation KW - MEDICAL POLICY N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -