Disorder : a history of reform, reaction, and money in American medicine / Peter A. Swenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swenson, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Business and medicine--United States.

Business and medicine.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

An incisive look into the problematic relationships among medicine, politics, and business in America and their effects on the nation's health.

Contents:

Introduction: Political Transformations in American Medicine

PART ONE: The American Medical Disorder

CHAPTER 1: Medical Mayhem

CHAPTER 2: Organizing for Order

PART TWO: Drug Problems

CHAPTER 3: Therapeutic Chaos and Commercial Conquest

CHAPTER 4: Heal Thyself

CHAPTER 5: Legal Remedy

PART THREE: Public Health And The Body Politic

CHAPTER 6: Bacillus Politicus and the Diseased State

CHAPTER 7: Cattlemen, Commanders, Capitalists, and Crusaders

CHAPTER 8: Health or Freedom

PART FOUR: Schooling Physicians

CHAPTER 9: A Plague of Doctors

CHAPTER 10: Unnatural Selection and Intelligent Design

CHAPTER 11: A Great Wave of Improvement

PART FIVE: Reactionary Turn And Beyond

CHAPTER 12: Insurgency

CHAPTER 13: The Conservative Medico-Political Order

CHAPTER 14: Medical Power Politics

CHAPTER 15: A New Medical Progressivism

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-26287-6

9780300262872

OCLC:

1272997443