But it is worth noting two factors, in addition to those that Gawande mentions, responsible for this pervasive approach to health care: the corporatization of medicine, and a fear of lawsuits.
When people talk about the corporatization of network news, they mean that something that was once run in the service of truth and the public interest is now being run according to the principles of the marketplace.
The effect of all this corporatization, as with the replacement of independent booksellers by superstores, has been to privilege the blockbuster.
Klein, whose previous books have established her as a prominent critic of corporatization, offers numerous policy ideas: climate debt funds and tariffs; enforcement of indigenous rights to counteract extractive industries; calculated divestment from conventional energy and reinvestment in green solutions.
Others point to the corporatization of universities, which are increasingly inclined to hire part-time, "adjunct" professors, rather than full-time, tenure-track ones, to teach undergrads.
While the quick corporatization of the phrase "Boston Strong" by the Red Sox, and others, was a bit unnerving at times, it is nonetheless true that Boston's baseball team was a major rallying point in the days and months following the attack.
Louis Menand, in his piece on the life of Walter Cronkite, writes, "When people talk about the corporatization of network news, they mean that something that was once run in the service of truth and the public interest is now being run according to the principles of the marketplace" (A Critic at Large, July 9th & 16th).
QUESTION FROM JOANNE HUDSON : But wasn't Ralph right, about the corporatization of America?
John Leonard, a Nation columnist and former editor of The New York Times Book Review, described Mr. Rosenthal as an endangered species in a 1997 commentary about the corporatization of the publishing industry for the CBS News program "Sunday Morning": "He prided himself on being able to publish any book he cared about".
The spiffiness — or if you're feeling less charitable, corporatization — of the Upper West Side is a far cry from the early 1960s when Mr. Imirziades arrived and the neighborhood was overrun with addicts.
BigFuture is the product of an unlikely marriage between the College Board and the Education Conservancy, whose leader, Lloyd Thacker, has criticized the "corporatization" of the board and the commercialization of the college admissions process.
