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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States--History.

Medical policy.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 362 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2007]

Contents:

I Inventing Public-Private Policy for Hospitals in the United States

1 Sweet Charity: State Aid to Hospitals in Pennsylvania, 1870-1910 7

2 "A Poor Sort of Memory": Voluntary Hospitals and Government before the Depression 53

II Negotiating a National Governmental Role

3 Can the Government Govern? The Establishment of Veterans Hospitals 89

4 Letter from America, 1961 113

5 Anatomy of a Dilemma: Creating and Implementing Medicaid, 1965-1970 / Robert Stevens 117

6 Governments and Medical Care: Comparing the U.S and Great Britain in 1977 157

III Buzzwords, Rationality, and Dreams: 1968-1986

7 The Federal Role in Health Care Research: Thoughts for Discussion and Development (1968) 181

8 The Federal Role in Relation to HMOs: Laissez Faire versus Regulation (1970) / David A. Pearson, Beverlee A. Myers 191

9 Regionalization and Health Manpower (1977) 195

10 Health Care in a Context of Civil Rights (1981) 219

11 Health Care "Equity": Slippery Concept, Elusive Goals (1986) 223

IV The Medical Profession: Between Government and Market?

12 Trends in Medical Specialization in the United States (1970) 241

13 The Future of the Medical Profession (1986) 255

14 Professional Competence and Specialty Board Certification (1999) 273

15 Public Roles for the Medical Profession in the United States: Beyond Theories of Decline and Fall (2001) 285

V The American Health Care State

16 The American Hospital as a Social Institution: Past is Prologue (1986) 313

17 Hospitals at the End of the Twentieth Century (1999) 323.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0765803496

9780765803498

OCLC:

64771131