The public-private health care state : essays on the history of American health care policy / Rosemary Stevens.

Author
Stevens, Rosemary, 1935- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xviii, 362 pages ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • I. Inventing public-private policy for hospitals in the United States
    • 1. Sweet charity : state aid to hospitals in Pennsylvania, 1870-1910
    • 2. "A poor sort of memory" : voluntary hospitals and government before the Depression
    • II. Negotiating a national governmental role
    • 3. Can the government govern? : the establishment of veterans hospitals
    • 4. Letter from America, 1961
    • 5. Anatomy of a dilemma : creating and implementing Medicaid, 1965-1970 / Rosemary Stevens and Robert Stevens
    • 6. Governments and medical care : comparing the U.S. and Great Britain in 1977
    • III. Buzzwords, rationality, and dreams : 1968-1986
    • 7. The federal role in health care research : thoughts for discussion and development (1968)
    • 8. The federal role in relation to HMOs : Laissez Faire versus regulation (1970) / Rosemary Stevens, David A. Pearson and Beverlee A. Myers
    • 9. Regionalization and health manpower (1977)
    • 10. Health care in a context of civil rights (1981)
    • 11. Health care "equity" : slippery concept, elusive goals (1986)
    • IV. The medical profession : between government and market?
    • 12. Trends in medical specialization in the United States (1970)
    • 13. The future of the medical profession (1986)
    • 14. Professional competence and specialty board certification (1999)
    • 15. Public roles for the medical profession in the United States : beyond theories of decline and fall (2001)
    • V. The American health care state
    • 16. The American hospital as a social institution : past is prologue (1986)
    • 17. Hospitals at the end of the twentieth century (1999).
    ISBN
    • 0765803496 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 9780765803498 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2006044484
    OCLC
    64771131
    RCP
    C - S
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