Table of contents for The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order by Barbara Bridgman Perkins

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Business Models and Medical Interventions

Part I - Medical Specialism and Early-Twentieth-Century Economic Organization

Academic Specialty Departments and Scientific Management

Dividing Labor, Industrializing Birth

Part II - Designing Delivery Systems

The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care and Corporate Organization of Medicine

Regional Health Planning and Economic Organization of the Medical Industry

Perinatal Regionalization and Economic Order

Part III - The Economic Production of Childbirth

Competing for the Birth Market: Providers, Procedures, and Paradigms

Capital Intensive Medicine and Academic Practice Plans

Managing Birth: Managed Care and Active Management of Labor

Conclusion: Re-forming Medicine, Reforming Reform

Notes

Index