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- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 364 p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Uniform Title
- History and health policy in the United States (Online)
- Alternative Title
- History & health policy in the United States
- Subject
- Medical policy > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2005023051
- OCLC
- ssj0000082507
- Title
History and health policy in the United States [electronic resource] : putting the past back in / edited by Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
- Series
Critical issues in health and medicine
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Burns, Lawton R.
- Cover Title
History & health policy in the United States