Chapter 4. Medical Bureaucracy: The Ministry of Health

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Preface xi
4. CONTENTS xix
5. Part I. THE SETTING
6. Chapter 1. The Background: Tsarism and the Zemstvo Physician 1
7. Chapter 2. Medical Services and the Soviet System 9
8. Chapter 3. Soviet Medical Organization: History and Development 14
9. Chapter 4. Medical Bureaucracy: The Ministry of Health 27
10. Part II. THE PHYSICIAN
11. Chapter 5. The Medical Profession: From Corporation to Employee Group 45
12. Chapter 6. Recruitment of Medical Personnel: Social Origins, Motivation, Training and Indoctrination 62
13. Chapter 7. Allocation of Medical Personnel: The Administrative Solution 78
14. Chapter 8. Prerequisites for Medical Practice 102
15. Chapter 9. To Certify or not to Certify: The Physician’s Dilemma 146
16. Part III. THE PATIENT
17. Chapter 10. Social Position and “Medical Category” 183
18. Chapter 11. Experiences with the Medical System and the Physician: Availability, Competence, and Rapport 191
19. Chapter 12. Attitudes Toward the Medical System: Propaganda, Expectations, and Reality 203
20. Chapter 13. The Patient’s Dilemma: Organizational or Private Medicine 213
21. Summary and Conclusions 221
22. APPENDICES NOTES INDEX
23. APPENDIX A. 227
24. APPENDIX B. 228
25. APPENDIX C. 229
26. APPENDIX D. 232
27. APPENDIX E. 233
28. NOTES 237
29. Index 260