| Description |
ix, 364 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-
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Rosenberg, Charles E.
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Burns, Lawton R.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Cover Title |
History & health policy in the United States |
| ISBN |
0813538378 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813538386 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780813538372 |
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9780813538389 |
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