Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Raudenbush’s
Health Care off the Books provides a compelling account and an indictment of the American health care system, one that simultaneously drives low-income residents to engage in risky behavior and physicians to skirt the edges of medical ethics. In a time of growing health care need amid a global pandemic coupled with economic strife, her book should be required reading for students of medical sociology and medicine alike."
* American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Health Care Access in America and
the Formal-Informal Hybrid Health Care System
2. Access to Care in Jackson Homes
3. Sick, Poor, and without Care: Individual Responses
to Barriers and the Emergence of a Hybrid System
4. “On the Poor Side of Things”: The Role of the Local
Community in the Hybrid System
5. The Doctor Is In: Physicians in the Hybrid System
6. After the Affordable Care Act
7. Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index
