History and Health Policy in the United States
Putting the Past Back In
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine;
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 1 June 2006
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780813538389
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 229x152x23 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 b&w illustrations, 4 tables 0
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Short description:
In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing fields such as health and medicine, most systems and policies embody a sequence of earlier ideas and preexisting patterns.
In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine. They show how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, outdated, or merely fashionable approaches, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear.
Together, the essays argue that it is only by knowing where we have been that we can begin to understand health services today or speculate on policies for tomorrow.
In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine. They show how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, outdated, or merely fashionable approaches, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear.
Together, the essays argue that it is only by knowing where we have been that we can begin to understand health services today or speculate on policies for tomorrow.
Long description:
In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing fields such as health and medicine, most systems and policies embody a sequence of earlier ideas and preexisting patterns.
In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine. They show how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, outdated, or merely fashionable approaches, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear.
Together, the essays argue that it is only by knowing where we have been that we can begin to understand health services today or speculate on policies for tomorrow.
In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, the history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine. They show how historical perspectives can help policymakers avoid the pitfalls of partisan, outdated, or merely fashionable approaches, as well as how knowledge of previous systems can offer alternatives when policy directions seem unclear.
Together, the essays argue that it is only by knowing where we have been that we can begin to understand health services today or speculate on policies for tomorrow.
This rich array of essays shows how the lens of history can clarify contemporary health policy dilemmas and enable the reader to see ahead more clearly.
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Table of Contents:
Foreword by David Mechanic
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Rosemary A. Stevens
Part I: Actors and Interpretations
Chapter 1 - Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy by Charles E. Rosenberg
Chapter 2 - The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change: The Odd Interplay between Government and Ideology in the Recent Political History of the U.S. Health-Care System by Lawrence D. Brown
Chapter 3 - Medical Specialization as American Health Policy: Interweaving Public and Private Roles by Rosemary A. Stevens
Part II: Rhetoric, Rights, Responsibilities
Chapter 4 - Patients of Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of Contested Terms Matters by Nancy Tomes
Chapter 5 - The Democratization of Privacy: Public-Health Surveillance and Changing Conceptions of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America by Amy L. Fairchild
Chapter 6 - Building a Toxic Environment: Historical Controversies over the Past and Future of Public Health by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
Part III: Priorities and Politics
Chapter 7 - Situating Health Risks: An Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy by Robert A. Aronowitz
Chapter 8 - The Jewel in the Federal Crown? History, Politics, and the National Institutes of Health by Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary
Chapter 9 - A Marriage of Convenience: The Persistent and Changing Relationship between Long-Term Care and Medicaid by Colleen M. Grogan
Part IV: Policy Management and Results
Chapter 10 - Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America by David Mechanic and Gerald N. Grob
Chapter 11 - Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net by Beatrix Hoffman
Chapter 12 - Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy by Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra P. Burns
Chapter 13 - The Rise and Decline of the HMO: A Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History by Bradford H. Gray
Contributors
Index
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Acknowledgments
Introduction by Rosemary A. Stevens
Part I: Actors and Interpretations
Chapter 1 - Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy by Charles E. Rosenberg
Chapter 2 - The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change: The Odd Interplay between Government and Ideology in the Recent Political History of the U.S. Health-Care System by Lawrence D. Brown
Chapter 3 - Medical Specialization as American Health Policy: Interweaving Public and Private Roles by Rosemary A. Stevens
Part II: Rhetoric, Rights, Responsibilities
Chapter 4 - Patients of Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of Contested Terms Matters by Nancy Tomes
Chapter 5 - The Democratization of Privacy: Public-Health Surveillance and Changing Conceptions of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America by Amy L. Fairchild
Chapter 6 - Building a Toxic Environment: Historical Controversies over the Past and Future of Public Health by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
Part III: Priorities and Politics
Chapter 7 - Situating Health Risks: An Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy by Robert A. Aronowitz
Chapter 8 - The Jewel in the Federal Crown? History, Politics, and the National Institutes of Health by Robert Cook-Deegan and Michael McGeary
Chapter 9 - A Marriage of Convenience: The Persistent and Changing Relationship between Long-Term Care and Medicaid by Colleen M. Grogan
Part IV: Policy Management and Results
Chapter 10 - Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America by David Mechanic and Gerald N. Grob
Chapter 11 - Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net by Beatrix Hoffman
Chapter 12 - Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy by Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra P. Burns
Chapter 13 - The Rise and Decline of the HMO: A Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History by Bradford H. Gray
Contributors
Index
