The Healthcare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) Reviews

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Release: 2010-04-15
Publisher: Greenwood
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0313356661
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The Healthcare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) pdf
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Concise, authoritative, and unbiased, The Healthcare Debate provides meaningful context for thinking about one of the most controversial public policy issues the United States faces. It traces the evolution of the argument over the government's role in healthcare financing and delivery since the early 1800s, with an emphasis on the major reform efforts since the mid-20th century.Following the complex dynamics of public health policy across U.S. history, The Healthcare Debate brings together a wide range of voices on the subject—presidents, policymakers, reformers, lobbyists, and everyday citizens. Each of its eight chronologically organized chapters focuses on the battle over government involvement in healthcare in a specific era, drawing on historic documents and the latest retrospective research. With President Obama making healthcare reform his top domestic priority in his first year in office, this remarkable new book could not be more timely. Download The Healthcare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Medicine in Society: Historical Essays

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Edition: 1
Release: 1992-02-28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0521336392
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The social history of medicine over the past fifteen years has redrawn the boundaries of medical history. Specialized papers and monographs have contributed to our knowledge of how medicine has affected society and how society has shaped medicine. This book synthesizes, through a series of essays, some of the most significant findings of this "new social history" of medicine. The period covered ranges from ancient Greece to the present time. While coverage is not exhaustive, the reader is able to trace how medicine in the West developed from an unlicensed open market place, with many different types of practitioners in the classical period, to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century professionalized medicine of State influence, of hospitals, public health medicine, and scientific medicine. The book also covers innovative topics such as patient-doctor relationships, the history of the asylum, and the demographic background to the history of medicine. Download Medicine in Society for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications)

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Release: 1996-01-26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 052155831X
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Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms. Download Epidemics and Ideas for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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