Product Details:

These books describe advances in medical care, inflation in its costs, and the often antagonistic roles of the government and the private sector in providing health care services. A case is made for more individual responsibility for health together with more government regulations of those directly and indirectly affecting health and treatments, including not just the drug industry but health care providers, as well as food, automobile, and other industries that have been more concerned about profits than the safety and health of the public. The author joins with those who consider health care to be a national priority recommend a government-run universal health system paid for by taxes. Such health care systems exist in other developed countries less wealthy than the United States and they often have resulted in better health and higher longevities for their citizens.

About The Author:

The author is a 77 year old war veteran confined to a wheelchair. Before suffering a stroke, he was a psychotherapist in private practice and he was Chief Psychologist at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He also worked at the Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy in New York City and supervised therapists and taught at Adelphi University's Postgraduate Psychotherapy Institute on Long Island.

Dr. Goodman was always interested in the interactions between social values and the goals of psychotherapy. He has written articles about this subject for professional journals. He also wrote a book using a pseudonym which presented a fictionalized account of how money and influence interfered with appropriate treatments for outpatients in the psychiatric service of a hospital.

Because of the author's disabilities, the entire manuscript for that book and the present one was typed by him using only one finger.