Differential diagnoses
Subtitle: a comparative history of health care problems and solutions in the United States and France
By: Paul V. Dutton.
Series: The culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: Cornell University Press; ILR Press/Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780801445125
Subjects: Social medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Social medicine -- France -- History -- 20th century; Medical policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Medical policy -- France -- History -- 20th century; Medical care -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Medical care -- France -- History -- 20th century; Insurance, Health -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Insurance, Health -- France -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Common ideals, divergent nations; title: Health insurance and the rise of private-practice medicine, 1915-1930; title: Health security, the state, and civil society, 1930-1940; title: Challenges and change during the Second World War, 1940-1945; title: Labor's quest for health security, 1945-1960; title: The choice of public or private, 1950-1970; title: Cost control moves to the fore, 1970-2000; title: Hospitals and the difficult art of health care reform, 1980-present; title: Les jeux sont faits? : 2000-present.