Michael Christopher Gibbons • Rajeev Bali
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Editors

2010

For the better part of the twentieth century, and now into the twenty-first century, the United States has been recognized as having one of the world’s best healthcare systems in terms of its use of leading edge techniques, technologies and application of the latest medical findings to healthcare delivery (Starr, 1982; Kongstvedt, 1994). Looking at the miraculous cures, incredible surgical feats, control of infectious disease, and other aspects of American medicine, it is difficult to dispute the claim.