Who Killed the Queen?
The Story of a Community Hospital and How to Fix Public Health Care
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2008
- Category
- History, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773533400
- Publish Date
- Apr 2008
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773578654
- Publish Date
- Apr 2008
- List Price
- $45.95
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Description
Using the dramatic and entertaining 100-year history of the Queen Elizabeth as a base, Who Killed the Queen? investigates Canada's mass closures of hospitals and hospital beds between 1994 and 1998. The book shows that the resulting 20% loss of beds - a figure unparalleled in the history of any other industrialized country - continues to affect hospital and health care in every province. Holly Dressel offers strong evidence as to who and what was responsible for the closures and also provides well-supported, international assessments of the current quality of the Canadian health care system, arguing that it can not only be saved but strengthened.
About the author
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Holly Dressel, co-author of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, has been a writer and researcher for television, film, and radio for twenty years and has worked for CBC TV's The Nature of Things. She lives near Montreal, Quebec.
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