Health Care Policy in Contemporary America Paperback / softback
Edited by Alan I. Marcus, Hamilton Cravens
Part of the Issues in Policy History series
Paperback / softback
Description
Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II.
They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control.
Yet concerns about health remain widespread today. Cancer seems to be everywhere; autoimmune, nervous, and environmental diseases have reached pandemic proportions; medical malpractice suits have proliferated. How can we have received so many benefits while still being as worried as ever about our health and the health care system established to ensure and extend those benefits?
The historical perspective provided by the essays in this volume helps answer this question by identifying two points of significant change in health care policy.
Beginning in the 1950s there emerged a subtle yet critical reconceptualization as the individual rather than the group came to figure prominently as the central policy-making unit.
Then in the late 1960s a palpable sense of limits rendered the individualism of the previous decade into a Malthusian formulation: the greater the access or benefits that any one person received, the less others could get.
Besides tracing these patterns in health care development, the essays also show how traditional notions of expertise have been affected by the changes.
Contributors are Amy Sue Bix, Hamilton Cravens, Gerald N.
Grob, Alan I Marcus, Diane Paul, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, and James Harvey Young.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:01/07/1997
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- ISBN:9780271017402
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:01/07/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780271017402
