Rosemary Stevens is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest.

Stevens brilliantly views the hospital as a prism of the values and mores of society... She sees the stratification of the hospital population into private, semi-private, and charity patients as a manifestation of the social stratifications of American society. Reviews in American History This book is beautifully written... and is must reading for anyone involved in the current debate on health policy. It will also make delightful reading for those who merely wish to view the shifting social and economic climate in modern America, as seen from the perspective of the hospital. New England Journal of Medicine

Rosemary Stevens is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest.

Stevens brilliantly views the hospital as a prism of the values and mores of society... She sees the stratification of the hospital population into private, semi-private, and charity patients as a manifestation of the social stratifications of American society. Reviews in American History This book is beautifully written... and is must reading for anyone involved in the current debate on health policy. It will also make delightful reading for those who merely wish to view the shifting social and economic climate in modern America, as seen from the perspective of the hospital. New England Journal of Medicine

Rosemary Stevens is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest.

Stevens brilliantly views the hospital as a prism of the values and mores of society... She sees the stratification of the hospital population into private, semi-private, and charity patients as a manifestation of the social stratifications of American society. Reviews in American History This book is beautifully written... and is must reading for anyone involved in the current debate on health policy. It will also make delightful reading for those who merely wish to view the shifting social and economic climate in modern America, as seen from the perspective of the hospital. New England Journal of Medicine