 Eli Ginzberg in Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor Published in print: 0000 Published Online: October 0000 ISBN: 0000000000000 eISBN: 0000000000000 Item type: chapter Publisher: Yale University Press DOI: 00.00000/yale/0000000000000.000.0000 Subject: Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility An academic health center (AHC) consists of a medical school and one or more health professional schools. These schools are joined to one or more affiliated teaching hospitals that are under common 