Health Security for All

Dreams of Universal Health Care in America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av Alan Derickson, Pennsylvania State University) Derickson, Alan (Professor of History

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This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy-universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and idealists across the political spectrum.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-04-06
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801880810

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This book provides an intriguing recount of health care reform's storied and often tumultuous past. -- Ronald T. Ackermann, MD, MPH Annals of Internal Medicine 2005 Required reading for those interested in the life and death of health policy initiatives... Valuable primer on health policy. -- Eric G. Campbell, PhD JAMA 2005 Will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers... and anyone interested in a fairer and healthier society. -- Marian E. Gornick New England Journal of Medicine 2005 Derickson has rendered these ideas concerning access intelligible and the disputes over them comprehensible. -- Theodore R. Marmor Journal of American History 2006 Derickson's book is undoubtedly an important contribution that deserves a wide readership. -- Gerald N. Grob Psychiatric Services 2006 Anyone who wonders whether there is anything new that can be said about the issue must read Alan Derickson's marvelous book. -- Jill Quadagno Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2006 This is a book that asks the right questions and contains more than its share of provocative answers. -- Edward D. Berkowitz Journal of Social History 2006 A fascinating intellectual and political history of reform ideologies and debates. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2006 A fascinating intellectual and political history of reform ideologies and debates. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2006 Beautifully readable, scholarly, and brief (for its coverage). Educ'l Gerontology 2007 A valuable addition... The unique feature of the book is its focus on the goal of universalism, rather than the more narrow politics of national health insurance... grounded in discourses of needs, efficiency, and rights. -- Martin Gorsky Medical History 2007