History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in / / edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns.

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Superior document:Critical issues in health and medicine
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Physical Description:ix, 364 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Anticipated consequences : historians, history, and health policy / Charles E. Rosenberg
  • The more things stay the same the more they change : the odd interplay between government and ideology in the recent political history of the U.S. health-care system / Lawrence D. Brown
  • Medical specialization as American health policy : interweaving public and private roles / Rosemary A. Stevens
  • Patients or health-care consumers? Why the history of contested terms matters / Nancy Tomes
  • The democratization of privacy : public-health surveillance and changing conceptions of privacy in twentieth-century America / Amy L. Fairchild
  • Building a toxic environment : historical controversies over the past and future of public health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
  • Situating health risks : an opportunity for disease-prevention policy / Robert A. Aronowitz
  • The jewel in the federal crown? History, politics, and the National Institutes of Health / Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary
  • A marriage of convenience : the persistent and changing relationship between long-term care and Medicaid / Colleen M. Grogan
  • Rhetoric, realities, and the plight of the mentally ill in America / David Mechanic and Gerald N. Grob
  • Emergency rooms : the reluctant safety net / Beatrix Hoffman
  • Policy implications of hospital system failures : the Allegheny bankruptcy / Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra P. Burns
  • The rise and decline of the HMO : a chapter in U.S. health-policy history / Bradford H. Gray.