Reviews for Governing university hospitals in a changing environment

The average rating for Governing university hospitals in a changing environment based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-28 00:00:00 Amy K Rider There's a part in Carlo Rotella's "Good with their Hands," where he's interviewing a woman, a New Urbanist with big plans for the town of Brockton, Massachusetts. Thinking about how the city had shown levels of racial succession and antagonisms, between the Italian, Irish, and a community of black Southern transplants, the artist unveils her plan to have a long walkway where each leg of the journey will represent something about each group; Roman arches for the Italians, Gaelic influences as a nod to the Irish, a patchwork pattern on the ground in the black portion of the park as a nod to the quilts woven by slaves, which sometimes served as secret messages on the Underground Railroad. It's at this point that Rotella notes sometimes creativity, and especially the associative brand, can lead an overeager artist down a blind path. He could have used a bit more self-awareness at this point, since his book, which shows no deficiency in style or each individual essay (except maybe the last), collapses under the weight of its free associating exuberance. The premise is solid: to examine people who live by an old-school working class ethos in a world that values other skills, and actually denigrates grit in some circumstances. His first two subjects, female boxing and Chicago Blues, gel pretty well as solo works and even cohere conceptually for the most part. His next essay, on the movie "The French Connection" is a great meditation on the seventies crime procedural as re-imagined by auteur director William Friedkin, but it's also at this point where the analogizing starts to show strain. It's in the last and final essay, on the ill-fated plans of a female Fitzcaraldo to re-purpose the house of "Brockton Blockbuster" Rocky Marciano as a museum, that the thing really goes off the rails and into the weeds (I'm not mixing metaphors, since my hypothetical train tracks abut overgrown fields of weeds) and the book, which is well-written, collapses due to conceptual overreach. At least in my opinion. That said, Rotella's a really good writer and this is just one man's view of things.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-18 00:00:00 Sallu Uks This book was okay. It seems to be a textbook for a history of mathematics course, but I am not sure. It doesn't really have any problems at the end of each chapter, but there are some essay question suggestions which suggest that this was some kind of textbook. In any case, it does have an easy smooth style and is easy to follow, but it isn't that enjoyable. It doesn't really go that much into depth for this, though it does contain some information that is relatively common if you are into mathematics. This book is also quite dated, seeing as how it was written in 1980. It doesn't even have the solution to Fermat's Last Theorem in it, since that came about in 1995 or something. In any case it is an okay book but I don't really think it was great.