... Initiatives: The 21st Century American Health System. Document No. 4 of four. Teton Village, WY: Jackson Hole Group. Johnson , C. 1978 . Capital Infrastructure Investment and Financing in Boston, 1962–77. Working Paper 1124–02. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. Manning , Ania . 1993 . Many...

... silicosis was understood during different periods of twentieth-century American history. Furthermore, the authors tell us that popular and professional awareness of the disease was not necessarily due to medical advances. It was, they wrote, “shaped by social, political and economic forces...

... that examine in-depth program implementation in particular states. Block Granting Medicaid: A Model for Twenty-First Century Health Reform? , by Edward Alan Miller, helps fill that niche with an insightful, thoughtful, and well-written evaluation of Rhode Island's recent effort both to reform its Medicaid...

...Magda Schaler-Haynes Carol Sanger . About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America . Cambridge : Belknap Press , 2017 . 320 pp. $29.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 In About Abortion , Carol Sanger serves up a textured, heavily...

...Daniel M. Fox; David Rosner; Rosemary A. Stevens Introduction Between Public and Private: A Half Century of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York Daniel M. Fox, Milbank Memorial Fund David Rosner, City University of New York Rosemary A. Stevens, University...

...Maureen Hogan Casamayou Barron H. Lerner. The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 416 pp. $30.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...Nancy Tomes Colin Gordon. Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,2003. 336 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Gordon, C. 1994 . New Deals: Business,Labor, and Politics in America...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Conventional public health wisdom holds that the end of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic change in beliefs about what causes disease, as early convictions about the importance of broad social factors gave way to a concentration on microorganisms. I argue, however, that in both...

...Mark A. Peterson Introduction Health Care into the Next Century Mark A. Peterson University of Pittsburgh At the dawn of the twentieth century’s final decade...

...Barbara Ellen Smith David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, eds., Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987), 234 pp., $35.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989...

...-type models for understanding the countervailing powers that underlie and shape different kinds of health care systems and their limitations in addressing the health care needs of the twenty-first century. In this context, I then analyze the revival of community heath care rhetoric in the United States...

...Jock McCulloch Peter Bartrip. Beyond the Factory Gates: Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America. London: Continuum, 2006. 264 pp. $150.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Bartrip, P. J. W. 2001 . The Way from Dusty Death: Turner and Newall and the Regulation...

... A Century of Failure: Health Care Reform in America David J. Rothman Columbia University Abstract To understand fully the persistent failure of the United States to enact national...

... Macmillan, 2001. 226 pp. $75.00 cloth. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Care for Older People: Policy Issues in the Twenty-First Century . Paris: OECD, 2005. 120 pp. cloth. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 AARP. AARP International Forum in Long-Term Care: 2003...

...James S. House Abstract David Mechanic has been a principal founder of modern sociological and social science approaches to health, especially in relation to health policy. These approaches have since the 1950s and 1960s resurrected ideas that had currency in the mid-nineteenth century but seemed...

... remained quite localized at the state level until the early twentieth century and still retains many of those features. The U.K. approach became centralized from the latter part of the nineteenth century and has principally remained so. In both cases, disease surveillance was traditionally conceived...

... community of mid-twentieth-century insurance experts to economists, physicians, epidemiologists, and eventually the news media of the early twenty-first century. A quick glimpse at the history of the term reveals that there has been constant disagreement and debate over the meaning and impact...

...Allan V. Horwitz; Gerald N. Grob Abstract Over the course of the nineteenth century, medical disciplines replaced holistic conceptions of body and mind with specific diagnoses that were unrelated to the qualities and circumstances of the individuals who harbored them. Despite periodic attempts from...

... and the United Kingdom seems to affirm the dominant view that the U.S. and U.K. welfare states have diverged substantially during the twentieth century. A comparison of U.S. and U.K. health policy, however, suggests that there are more parallels and points of tangency between the two systems than are readily...

... the development of the medical profession and its relation to the broader society. Book One deals with the initial loss and later recovery of professional authority, status, and control of the medical market between the late colonial period and the early twentieth century. The final chapters of Book One analyze...