Reading List

Updated September 1, 2015

8 Decades of Health Care [Hospitals & Health Networks series], Chicago: Health Forum, 2007.

American Hospital Association. 100 Faces of Health Care. Chicago: Health Forum, 1999. (WX 11 AA1 O58)

Arndt, M., and Bigelow, B. Hospital administration in the early 1900s: visions for the future and the reality of daily practice. Journal of Healthcare Management. 52(1):34-47, Jan.-Feb., 2007.

Austin, A., and Wetle, V. The United States Health Care System: Combining Business, Health and Delivery. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2012. (W 84 AA1 A935u).

Barr, D. A. Introduction to U.S. Health Policy: the Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America. 3rd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. (WA 540 AA1 B268i)

Barsukiewicz, C. K., Raffel, M. W., and Raffel, N. K. The U.S. Health System: Origins and Functions. 6th ed. Albany, NY: Delmar, 2010. (W 84 AA1 R232u)

Barton, P. L. Understanding the U.S. Health Services System. 4th ed. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2010. (W 84 B293u)

Beazley, S., ed. A Brief Guide to the U. S. Health Care Delivery System: Facts, Definitions, and Statistics. 2nd ed. Chicago: Health Forum, 2010. (W 84 AA1 U58h)

Eskes, C.L. and others, editors. Health Policy: Crisis and Reform. 6th ed. Sudbury, MS: Jones and Barlett Publishers, 2008. (W 84 AA1 H434p)

Friedman, E. U.S. hospitals and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Hospitals & Health Networks Daily, June 3, 2014.

Ginzberg, E. Tomorrow's Hospital: a Look to the Twenty-first Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. (WX 100 G493t)

Griffin, D. Hospitals: What They Are and How They Work. 4th ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2012. (WX 100 S673h).

Grinney, E. H. The Hospital. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.(WX 11.1 G868h)

Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: a New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001. (WA 540 AA1 C951)

Jonas, S. An Introduction to the U. S. Health Care System. 7th ed. New York: Springer, 2012. (W 84 AA1 J76i)

Kilpatrick, A., and Johnson, J., editors. Handbook of Health Administration and Policy. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999. (WA 525 H236)

Kominski, G., editor. Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management. 4th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014.(WA 540 AA1 C456)

Kongstvedt, P. R. Essentials of Managed Health Care. 6th ed. Sudbury, MD: Jones and Bartlett, 2013. (W 130 AA1 E78)

Kovner, A. R., and Jonas, S., eds. Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States. 10th ed. New York: Springer, 2011. (W 84 AA1 H376).

Larkin H. Will we make history? How we got here: presidents and their health initiatives [sidebar chronology]. Hospitals and Health Networks. 83(2):20-25, Feb. 2009.

Longest, B. B. Health Policymaking in the United States. 6th ed. Chicago: Health Administration Press; Washington, DC: AUPHA Press, 2015. (WA 546 L852h)

Patel, K., and Rushefsky, M. Health Care Politics and Policy in America. 4th ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014.

Ransom, J. Beginnings of hospitals in United States - Part I. Hospitals. 15(12):68-71, Dec. 1941.

Ransom, J. Beginnings of hospitals in United States - Part II. Hospitals. 16(1):74-79, Jan. 1942.

Risse, G. B. Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: a History of Hospitals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (WX 11.1 R596m)

Rosenberg, C. E. The Care of Strangers: the Rise of America's Hospital System. New York: Basic Books, 1987. (WX 11 AA1 R813c)

Schulte, M. Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.A. 2nd ed. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2013. (W84 AA1 S386h)

Shi, L. Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach. 5th ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2012. (W 84 AA1 S555e)

Shi, L., and Singh, D. A. Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System. 2nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, Mar. 5, 2009. (W 84 AA1 S555e)

Slee, D. A., Slee, V. N., and Schmidt, H. J. Slee’s Health Care Terms. 5th ed. Sudburgy, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2006.(Ref W 15 S632h)

Snyder, T. S. A Half Century in Retrospect [American Hospital Association]. Hospitals 22(9):56-66, Sept. 1948.

Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development. FutureScan 2013: Healthcare Trends and Implications, 2015-2020. Chicago: Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development, 2015. (WA 900 AA1 F996).

Starr, P. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York: Basic Books, 1982. (WZ 70 AA1 S796s)

Stevens, R. In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. (WX 11 AA1 S845i)

Sultz, H. A., and Young, K. M. Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery. 7th ed. Sudbury, MD: Jones and Bartlett, 2010. (W 84 AA1 S954h)

Teitelbaum, J. B., and Wilensky, S. E. Essentials of Health Policy and Law. 2nd ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2013. (WA 33 AA1 T265e)

Weeks, L. E., and Berman, H. J. Shapers of American Health Policy: An Oral History. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1985.

White, K. R., and Griffith, J. R. The Well-managed Healthcare Organization. 7th ed. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2010. (W 84 AA1 G853w)

Wolper, L. F., ed. Health Care Administration: Managing Organized Delivery Systems. 5th ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2011. (WX 150 H4337)