Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. A Note to Readers
  5. Epigraph
  6. Prologue
  7. Part I: Autumn, 2018
  8. 1  A Ready Haven of Refuge: The Battle to Control Health
  9. 2  Everybody Is Coming After This Hospital: Surviving the Business
  10. 3  Chasing the Symptoms: Searching for the Roots of American Sickness
  11. 4  Powers Beyond Us: The Contagion of the New Capitalism
  12. 5  Pray: The Iniquity of Inequity
  13. Part II: Winter/Spring, 2018–2019
  14. 6  What Free Market? The Myth of Free-Market Medicine
  15. 7  The Crap End of the Stick: The Hospital as Hope
  16. 8  Puppies Are Drowning: The Thin Safety Net
  17. 9  They Don’t Have to See: The Limits of the Band-Aid Station
  18. Part III: Winter/Spring/Summer, 2019–2020
  19. Epilogue: Then Everything Changed: Covid-19
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. Index
  23. Also by Brian Alexander
  24. About the Author
  25. Copyright