Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States.- Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin).- Chapter 2.
Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland's All-Payer Hospital Rate-Setting System and the Persistence of Regulation in U.S. Health Care (Guian McKee).- Chapter 3. A Brief Overview of the Development of the Nursing Home Sector in the United States (Andrew Simpson).- Part II. Private Hospitals and Healthcare in Europe.- Chapter 4.
"Poliklinik" in the German Democratic Republic after 1945: The unification of outpatient and inpatient care in hospitals (Sabine Schleiermacher).- Chapter 5. Between Public and private: the business history of hospitals in Italy (1968-2018) (Daniela Felisini and Fernando Salsano).- Chapter 6. The International Sanitary Service (ISS) and the Innovations in Mobile Hospitals and Auto-chirs during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Carles Brasó Broggi).- Chapter 7. The Emergence of Modern Hospital Planning and Administration in Spain (1966-1986) (Josep Barceló Prats).- Chapter 8.
Private hospital groups in Spain: business concentration and penetration in public health (Jeronia Pons and Margarita Vilar).- Chapter 9. The Road to the National Health Service: Finance, Markets and the United Kingdom's Universal Health System (Barry Doyle).- Part III. Public and Private Initiative in Asia.- Chapter 10. The Rise of Hospital Dominance in China: Distribution of Resources and Activities Between Hospitals and Primary Care Facilities (1949-2018) (Jin Xu).- Chapter 11.
Japanese trading companies and hospital business in Asia since 2000 (Pierre-Yves Donzé).- Part IV. The Construction of Healthcare Systems in Latin America and Africa.- Chapter 12. Hospital Systems in Latin America: Transformation and Change, 1960s-2020s (Paloma Fernández Pérez).- Chapter 13. Immigration and health systems in Argentina. The case of the Spanish Hospital of Buenos Aires (Alejandro Fernández).
- Chapter 14. From missionaries to entrepreneurs in the business of hospitals in Africa (Grietjie Verhoef).