Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making
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Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making
By (Author) Daniel Skinner
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
11th February 2020
1
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Medical sociology
362.1
Physical Properties
Hardback
264
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
How the politics of "medical necessity" complicates American health care The definition of medical necessity has morphed over the years, from a singular physician's determination to a complex and dynamic political contest involving patients, medical companies, insurance companies, and government agencies. In this book, Daniel Skinner construc
Reviews
"Medical Necessity brings high-level theoretical concepts to bear on the idea of necessity, showing that this uniquely important aspect of contemporary medical administration appears and recedes in relation to a set of actorsdoctors, patients, insurance companies, paraprofessionals, and lawyerswho manage the classification of treatments and negotiate the technical aspects of need within their domains."Cindy Patton, editor of Rebirth of the Clinic: Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care
Author Bio
Daniel Skinner is associate professor of health policy in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio Universitys Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
