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Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer
Barbara Montgomery Dossey
Springhouse Publishing Company
2000
440 pages
Hardcover

Beautifully illustrated account of one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century. Reveals the many facets of this woman, including her mystical side, which inspired all of her achievements.

The New Medicine: Reshaping Medical Practice & Health Care
Russell Coile, Jr.
Aspen
1990
325 pages
Hardcover

What does the future hold in store for physicians and hospitals? Here in this thought-provoking volume, a futurist explores the possibilities and how they will impact every physician and hospital in America in the next 5 to 15 years.

Restructuring Health Care: A Patient-Focused Paradigm
J. Phillip Lathrop Booz
Jossey-Bass
1993
272 pages
Hardcover

Why has improving performance been such an intractable problem in healthcare institutions? The author explains the problem of improving performance is due largely to the underlying assumptions on which traditional healthcare administration practices have been based. In this book, he offers a new and necessary way of viewing healthcare, a new paradigm of hospital leadership. He presents a wealth of practical guidelines for leaving outmoded management practices behind and shows how, by so doing, hospital leaders can set the stage for real improvements in performance.

Solving America's Health-Care Crisis: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Our Nation's Economic Prosperity
Eric Eckholm
Random House
1993
288 pages
Paper

An authoritative and accessible primer on America's complicated healthcare issues, including the full text of the Clinton Task Force Report on Health Care Reform. The key to America's economic fate lies in healthcare reform. Understanding the many issues at stake and what might realistically be done to reform the system is the purpose of this compelling guide.