(Health and Society Series.) By Julian Tudor Hart. 320 pp. Bristol, England, Policy Press, 2006. $80 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). ISBN 978-1-86134-809-8 (cloth); 978-1-86134-808-1 (paper).
This altogether splendid book provides an incisive critiqueof the politics and economics of health care — the majordeterminants of who gets what kind of care and how much of it.What makes this book unique is that none of "the usual suspects"(economists, management experts, or health policy wonks) havewritten it. The author, Julian Tudor Hart, is a clinician, aBritish general practitioner who recently retired after servingfor 30 years in Glyncorrwg, a Welsh mining town. Thus, the bookis informed by his intimate knowledge of the exigencies of thedaily practice of primary care, against . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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