Dead on arrival : the politics of health care in twentieth-century America /

Publisher's description: Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Draw...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Gordon, Colin, 1962-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
Серии:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Online-ссылка:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=273096
Оглавление:
  • Introduction: Why no national health insurance in the United States?
  • The political economy of American health care : an overview, 1910-2000
  • Bargaining for health : private health insurance and public policy
  • Between contract and charity : health care and the dilemmas of social insurance
  • Socialized medicine and other afflictions : the political culture of the health debate
  • Health care in Black and white : race, region, and health politics
  • Private interests and public policy : health care's corporate compromise
  • Silenced majority : American politics and the dilemmas of health reform
  • Conclusion: The past and future of health politics.