Radical medicine : the international origins of socialized health care in Canada / Esyllt W. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Esyllt W., 1964- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National health services.

History.

National health insurance.

Medical policy.

Health insurance.

Politics and government.

Saskatchewan--Politics and government--20th century.

Saskatchewan.

Canada.

National health insurance--Canada--History--20th century.

Health insurance--Saskatchewan--History--20th century.

Medical policy--Canada--History--20th century.

Medical policy--Saskatchewan--History--20th century.

National health insurance--History--20th century.

National health services--History--20th century.

National Health Programs--history.

Health Policy--history.

History, 20th Century.

Medical Subjects:

Canada.

National Health Programs--history.

Health Policy--history.

History, 20th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, MB : ARP Books, [2019]

Summary:

"The origins of medicare have long been told as a simple and satisfying story: a good idea, born in Saskatchewan, was championed by our Greatest Canadian, Tommy Douglas, embraced by Canadians, now stands as a cherished example of our nation's unique values. Radical Medicine is a visionary and politicized new history of medicare. It traces medicare's roots around the world--to the New Deal in the US, the October Revolution in Russia and the British Labour movement. From the 1930s to the early 1950s radical health advocates from around the Atlantic world debated how to achieve socialized medicine. Out of these debates, there emerged on the medical left a specific model for health equality--the health centre. Radical Medicine uses the personal histories of international health advocates, the history of ideas, policy debates, political insights as well as the role of emotion as a central force in social movements. Challenging dominant historical narratives that often depoliticize medicare's origins by treating it a simple manifestation of primordial prairie politics, Radical Medicine shows that, although medicare was shaped fundamentally by local forces and cultures, we can only understand its history in a world-historical context. As universal public health insurance programs crumble around the world, Radical Medicine is the medicare book we need now."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Health Centres and the History of Socialized Medicine in Canada p. 15

Chapter 1 From Moscow With Love

Soviet Medicine and Inter war Medical Advocacy for Socialized Medicine p. 41

Chapter 2 A Smile In The Machine

British Labour and London's Interwar Health Centre Movement p. 91

Chapter 3 Saskatchewan 1944

Building a Model p. 135

Chapter 4 Dream Of A New Way Of Life

Mindel Cherniack Sheps and Early Health Reforms in Saskatchewan p. 189

Chapter 5 New Deal Medicine Moves North

US Health Planners in Saskatchewan p. 237

Chapter 6 Unintended Consequences

Hospitalization Insurance and the Eclipse of the Health Centre Model p. 279

Conclusion: Disappearing From View

The Health Centre Model's Dénouement p. 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-378) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Esyllt W., 1964- Radical medicine.

ISBN:

9781927886168

1927886163

OCLC:

1045228124

Publisher Number:

99983106232