Author: Bess FurmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1898-1948
Author: Bess FurmanHistory of the United States Public Health Service
Author: A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948
Author: Bess FurmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948. By Bess Furman in Consultation with Ralph C. Williams, Etc. [The Editor of the Text Identified in the Foreword as Martin M. Cummings.].
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Author: National Library of Medicine (WASHINGTON, D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948
Author: Bess FurmanHistory of the United States Public Health Service
Author: A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948
Author: Bess FurmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A History of Public Health
Author: George RosenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421416018
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.
Joseph James Kinyoun
Author: Joseph K. Houts, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476682909
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In March 1900, Dr. Joseph James Kinyoun, a surgeon with the Marine Hospital Service and the founder of the Hygienic Laboratory, which became the National Institutes of Health, discovered bubonic plague in San Francisco. His finding led to an immediate outcry from the governor, local and state politicians, and the city's commercial interests. In the hyper-sensationalized journalism of San Francisco's newspapers, Kinyoun was ridiculed, leading to death threats and a $50,000 bounty on his head. Eventually, California's quarantine caused an enormous uproar. By the time a special federal commission produced a report (initially withheld from the public, leading to charges of a coverup) that vindicated Kinyoun, a deal had been brokered wherein the pioneering doctor was removed from his post. This book tells a timely story about yellow journalism, coverup, corruption, the struggle between science and politics, and the consequences of blind denial of the truth.
Government and Public Health in America
Author: Ronald HamowyPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847204252
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
How involved should the government be in American healthcare? Ronald Hamowy argues that to answer this pressing question, we must understand the genesis of the five main federal agencies charged with responsibility for our health: the Public Health Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Veterans Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and Medicare. In examining these, he traces the growth of federal influence from its tentative beginnings in 1798 through the ambitious infrastructures of today and offers startling insights on the current debate. The author contends that until the twentieth century, governmental involvement in health care policy was nominal. With the sweeping food and drug reforms of 1906 and the Medicare amendments to Social Security in 1965, a whole new system of health care was brought to the American public. A careful analysis of the various programs generated by this legislation, however, shows a different picture of pet projects, budgetary lobbying, competitive bureaucracy and discord between the agencies and their opposition. Government and Public Health in America provides an illuminating look at the complicated forces that created these institutions and provokes discussion about their usefulness in the future. Hamowy s thoroughly researched analysis fills a substantial gap in the history of health policy. Economists, political scientists, historians, sociologists and health professionals concerned with the interface between government and health care will find much to recommend in this highly readable account of a fascinating topic.