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Feeding Frenzy

Organizational Deviance in the Texas Psychiatric Hospital Industry

Feeding Frenzy( )
Author: Vandenburgh, Henry
ISBN:978-0-7618-1337-8
Publication Date:Jan 1999
Publisher:University Press of America, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $122.95
Book Description:

Feeding Frenzy reports the methods used by for-profit Texas psychiatric hospitals to recruit patients. Henry Vandenburgh found the use of marketing techniques such as "suction" intake departments, seeking to hospitalize at least 30 percent of callers prompted by magazine ads, and the use of professional patient finders who set up support groups for parents of unruly teenagers and received $1,500 bounties for each admission brought to hospitals in the late 1980's and early 1990's. He...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Psychiatry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.053 x 23.571 x 1.575 cm
Book Weight:0.359 Kilograms



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