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History and health policy in the United States : putting the past back in /
In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.