The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities - Hardcoverby Daniel Skinner (Author), Jonathan R. Wynn (Author), Berkeley Franz (Author) A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically underserved. In The City and the Hospital two sociologists, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz, and a political scientist, Daniel