Andresen, Astri et al. (eds.): Healthcare SystemsSince World War Two, hospitals have secured their position as the crown jewel of healthcare systems worldwide: the obvious place to be for sick people needing their former strength restored, their pain relieved and their lives prolonged. How did the hospital acquire this prominent position in health care and in society? This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 2009 Bergen workshop on the history of health and medicine, organized