Title: Health care in America :
Authors: Reverby, Susan M.,; Rosner, David,
Date: 1979
Publisher: Temple University Press,
Physical description: 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: The essays in this collection have been written by a new generation of social historians who seek to ground the internal developments in medicine and health care in a political, social, and cultural matrix. Drawing upon the methodology of the new social history, the authors use oral history, hospital records, city directories, rank and file writings, as well as more traditional historical sources to examine the groups, institutions, and social movements which brought about changes in the American health system at particular historical moments. The essays in this volume address three themes of central concern to the health field: the shifting boundaries between professional and lay control over the definition of health and disease; the social and economic consequences of the changing focus of health care delivery; and the complex relationship between workers, professionals, and health care institutions. -- from Book Jacket
Contents: Pain, parturition, and the profession : twilight sleep in America / Lawrence G. Miller -- Social meaning of personal health : the Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity in the 1850s / Martha H. Verbrugge -- Loomis trial : social mores and obstetrics in the mid-nineteenth century / Virginia G. Drachman -- Politics and public health : smallpox in Milwaukee 1894-1895 / Judith Walzer Leavitt -- Transformation of the American hospital 1850-1920 / Morris J. Vogel -- Business at the bedside : health care in Brooklyn 1890-1915 / David Rosner -- He who pays the piper : foundations, the medical profession, and medical education / E. Richard Brown -- Sustaining "the flickering flame of life" : accountability and culpability for death in ante-bellum Massachusetts asylums / Barbara G. Rosenkrantz & Maris A. Vinovskis -- Doctors in crisis : medical education and medical reform during the Progressive Era, 1895-1915 / Gerald E. Markowitz & David Rosner -- Search for the hospital yardstick : nursing and the rationalization of hospital work / Susan Reverby -- Organizing Montefiore : labor militancy meets a progressive health care empire / Leon Fink & Brian Greenberg -- Individual responsibility and health politics in the 1970s / Robert Crawford.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Medical care--United States--History.; Social medicine--United States--History.