Introduction -- Executive Summary -- Conclusions -- 1. World War I: Initial Policy Decisions and Questions of Implementation - Introduction -- Setting Policy -- Mental Patients -- Blurry lines in amputee care -- Problems differentiating rehabilitation and vocational education -- Caring for the patients -- Problems Implementing Rehabilitation -- 2. 1919-1940: Between Wars - Introduction -- The Veterans' Bureau -- The Army general hospital system: developments -- Mobilization Plans -- The VB/VA hospital system: developments -- 3. World War II -- Introduction -- The Gradual Mobilization -- The Hospital Systems -- The VA -- The Army -- Personnel -- The VA -- The Army -- Developments of policy and practice -- Demobilization -- Reconditioning and Rehabilitation -- Psychiatric Patients -- 4. 1946-1956: A Changing Balance in Federal Healthcare: -- Introduction -- The VA Readjusts to Peace -- The AMEDD Amid Change -- Cutting Back Access to Army Hospitals -- The Career Compensation Act of 1949 -- The Korean War -- Convalescent Care -- Aftermath of Korea -- The Army reviews use of the VA -- 5. 1956-1973: From the Dependents Medical Care Program to the Volunteer Army via Vietnam -- Introduction -- The VA -- Changes in Medicine -- The Army -- The Changing Military Patient Population -- The Vietnam War -- The End of an Era -- 6. 1973-2001: The All-Volunteer Force charts its course -- Introduction -- Personnel Shortages in the AMEDD -- Rehabilitation Programs in the Army and VA -- Changes in Medicine -- Changing Patient Population -- Rising Healthcare Costs -- Planning for War and Supporting Deployments -- Abbreviations.
Subject
United States. Army Medical Department.
Rehabilitation -- history -- United States.
Health Policy -- history -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Hospitals, Veterans -- history -- United States.
Rehabilitation Centers -- history -- United States.
United States Government Agencies -- history -- United States.
