Janice Castro, The American Way of Health: How Medicine Is Changing and What It Means to You. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Discusses how health care used to be, why it has changed, and how it has changed.

Nancy Levitin, America's Health Care Crisis: Who's Responsible" New York: Franklin Watts, 1994. Explains how the various components of America's health care system have contributed to the cost and resource crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.

James D. Torr, ed., Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000. An anthology that provides viewpoints on health care issues ranging from managed care to reforming the health care system.

Carol Wekesser, ed., Health Care in America: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1994. An anthology of articles written by various experts that discusses key health care issues.

Lisa Yount, Issues in Biomedical Ethics. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998. Provides in-depth discussion of...