Natures Perfect Food or Cases in Health Services Management

Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink

Author: E Melanie Dupuis

"Du Puis' book is a rich and frothy drink, well worth consuming, just like its subject."—New York History

"This is an entertaining, informative, and tightly argued book, one well worth adding to any food library."
—Gastronomica

"An excellent social history of the development of milk drinking and production in the United States."
—American Studies

"Very readable and extremely well documented...DuPuis provides great insights throughout by reflecting on the thoughts of influential thinkers."
—Choice

"DuPuis is able to dive beneath the controversy that milk engenders today. Instead, she presents an informative, balanced history of milk production and consumption—how we get our milk and why we drink so much of it."
—E, Westport, CT

For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food," as "indispensable" and "the most com plete food." These milk "boosters" have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate?

Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk rhetoric portrays the dairy industry as cruel to animals and milk as bad for humans. Recently, books with titles like, "Milk: The Deadly Poison," and "Don't Drink Your Milk" have portrayed milk as toxic and unhealthy. Controversies over genetically-engineered cows and questions about antibiotic residue have also prompted consumers to question whether the milk theydrink each day is truly good for them.

In Nature's Perfect Food Melanie Dupuis illuminates these questions by telling the story of how Americans came to drink milk. We learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease beca me a staple of the American diet. Along the way we encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's milk was the perfect food with divine properties, brewers whose tainted cow feed poisoned the milk supply, and informal wetnursing networks that were destroyed with the onset of urbanization and industrialization. Informative and entertaining, Nature's Perfect Food will be the standard work on the history of milk.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Consumption
1	Why Milk?	3
2	The Perfect Food Story	17
3	Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow's Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America	46
4	The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform	67
5	Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies	90
Pt. II	Production
6	Perfect Fa rming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying	125
7	The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies	144
8	Crisis: The "Border-Line" Problem	165
9	Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California	183
10	The End of Perfection	210
	Afterword	241
	Notes	244
	Bibliography	271
	Index	297
	About the Author	311

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Cases in Health Services Management

Author: Jonathan Rakich

Providing an exceptional framework for decision making and debate, Cases in Health Services Management is an outstanding resource for capstone and issues courses and a valuable supplement for health services courses in organization and management, strategic planning, finance, and marketing.

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Reviewer: Fang Sun, PhD (California State University Dominguez Hills)
Description: This book provides students with 28 cases covering a broad range of topics in health services management.
Purpose: The purpose is to assist in the task of case-method teaching by providing a comprehensive set of healthcare management cases. Case method has played an important role in the study of healthcare management and making cases available to students will certainly improve the teaching and learning effectiveness. The book fully meets its worthy objective.
Audience: The editors and contributors possess tremendous experience in healthcare management practice and education and are credible authorities in this field. The audience includes students in educational programs in healthcare management and current healthcare managers.
Features: The cases are grouped intro four parts: strate gic management; administration, medical staff, and governing body; resource utilization and control; and human resource management and organization dynamics. They cover a broad range of issues, from quality improvement to strategic planning, ethical dilemmas, cost-benefit analyses, resource utilization, and more. I found the instructor's manual very helpful in getting the most out of the book and improving case-method teaching in class.
Assessment: This is a great book to use for case-method teaching in healthcare management education.

Booknews

Provides 30 detailed cases which address critical issues encountered by health services managers, including strategic management and marketing; organizational dynamics and staff relationships; CQI and TQM; sexual harassment; and union organization. Lacks a bibliography and index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

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	About the Editors
	Contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Medical Center of Southern Indiana: Community Commitment and Organization Revival	3
2	The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital	31
3	Mueller-O'Keefe Memorial Home and Retirement Village: Strategic Planning in a Continuing Care Retirement Community	37
Electronic Child Health Network (eCHN)	55
5	Caregivers	69
6	Merck's Crixivan	79
7	District Hospital: A Lesson in Governance	95
8	The Day After	109
9	Hartland Memorial Hospital: An In-Basket Exercise	119
10	The Bad Image Radiology Department	137
11	Westmount Nursing Homes, Incorporated: Implementing a Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative	151
12	Dr. Johnson, Network Medical Director	163
13	Sibley Memorial Hospital	179
14	Ethics Incidents	193
15	Endoscopes at Victoria Hospital	207
16	Regional Health System: The Satellite Health Park Strategy	213
17	The ER that Became the Emergency: Managing the Double Bind	229
18	Attica Memorial Hospital: The Ingelson Burn Center	239
19	Brunswick Community Hospital Cash Flow Crisis	257	20	Cardinal Health Care Systems: Some Behavioral Issues in Corporate Cost Allocation	271
21	West Florida Regional Medical Center (A)	277
22	A New "Brand" for Senior Health Plus	301
23	Autumn Park	311
24	Hammond General Hospital: The New Contract Food Service	321
25	Appalachian Home Health Service	329
26	Mercy Hospital	335
27	Watergate Nursing Home	349
28	Suburban Health Center	357