Product Description: You can drive out of Charlottesville, Virginia, in any direction and within ten minutes find yourself in third-world rural poverty. In 1988, University of Virginia academics began pondering how the institution's vast resources could be used to improve the lives of these rural poor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A portrait of a small hospital in Maine presents a view of the complex needs, claims, and goals of those involved in health care, and argues that politics are inseparable from health care