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Doctors and Reformers Jonathan Engel

Doctors and Reformers By Jonathan Engel

Doctors and Reformers by Jonathan Engel


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This title traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the US. It examines the views held by doctors, academics, public health officers, philanthropists and independent scholars.

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Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate Over Health Policy, 1925-1950 by Jonathan Engel

Jonathan Engel traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the United States. Examining the views advanced by doctors, including those unallied with the American Medical Association's position, as well as by reformers - academics, public health officers, philanthropists, foundation executives, and independent scholars - Engel displays how the discussion involved much more than the legislative efforts of New Deal Democrats regarding health insurance. Under discussion were group care, industrial health plans, nationalized hospitals, and public dispensaries. Engel's attention to the letters and other writings of key participants in the debates enriches his account, with the papers of Morris Fishbein, the president of the AMA, Michael Davis, a researcher for the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, and I. S. Falk, the research director for the Social Security Administration, adding concrete detail. His investigation demonstrates that physicians' reactions to legislative remedies were not monolithic. It also shows that foundation leaders were instrumental in enlisting organized labor, farmers, and liberal legislators in the improvement of the world's best medical care, and that the discussion was more than a debate between political foes. Participants in the debates discovered no simple solution to the challenges they explored, however, and their positions above all foreshadow the debate of succeeding decades.

About Jonathan Engel

JONATHAN ENGEL is an associate professor of health policy and management at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he teaches courses in the history and philosophy of medicine as well. He has held appointments in Washington with the Health Care Financing Administration and the White House Advisory Committee on Hurman Radiation Experiments. Engel lives in Millburn, New Jersey.

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CIN1570034117G
9781570034114
1570034117
Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate Over Health Policy, 1925-1950 by Jonathan Engel
Used - Good
Paperback
University of South Carolina Press
20020331
288
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