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History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- ix, 364 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Critical issues in health and medicine.
- Alternative Title
- History & health policy in the United States
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Actors and interpretations -- Ch. 1. Anticipated consequences : historians, history, and health policy / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Ch. 2. The more things stay the same the more they change : the old interplay between government and ideology in the recent political history of the U.S. health-care system / Lawrence D. Brown -- Ch. 3. Medical specialization as American health policy : interweaving public and private roles / Rosemary A. Stevens -- Pt. II. Rhetoric, rights, responsibilities -- Ch. 4. Patients or health-care consumers? : why the history of contested terms matters / Nancy Tomes -- Ch. 5. The democratization of privacy : public-health surveillance and changing conceptions of privacy in twentieth-century America / Amy L. Fairchild -- Ch. 6. Building a toxic environment : historical controversies over the past and future of public health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- Pt. III. Priorities and politics -- Ch. 7. Situating health risks : an opportunity for disease-prevention policy / Robert A. Aronowitz -- Ch. 8. The jewel in the federal crown? : history, politics, and the national institutes of health / Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary -- Ch. 9. A marriage of convenience : the persistent and changing relationship between long-term care and Medicaid / Colleen M. Grogan -- Pt. IV. Policy management and results -- Ch. 10. Rhetoric, realities, and the plight of the mentally ill in America / David Mechanic and Gerald N. Grob -- Ch. 11. Emergency rooms : the reluctant safety net / Beatrix Hoffman -- Ch. 12. Policy implications of hospital system failures : the Allegheny bankruptcy / Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra P. Burns -- Ch. 13. The rise and decline of the HMO : a chapter in U.S. health-policy history / Bradford H. Gray.
- ISBN
- 0813538378 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813538386 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813538372 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813538389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005023051
- 9780813538372
- 9780813538389
- OCLC
- ocm61295814
- SCSB-8971526
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries