History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back in

Table of contents

• History and Health Policy in the United States i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• History and Health Policy in the United States xi
• Introduction 1
• Part 1 - Actors and Interpretations 11
• Chapter 1 - Anticipated Consequences Historians, History, and Health Policy 13
• Chapter 2 - The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change the Odd Interplay Between Government and Ideology in the Recent Political History of the U.S. Health-Care System 32
• Chapter 3 - Medical Specialization as American Health Policy Interweaving Public and Private Roles 49
• Part II - Rhetoric, Rights, Responsibilities 81
• Chapter 4 - Patients or Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of Contested Terms Matters 83
• Chapter 5 - The Democratization of Privacy Public-Health Surveillance and Changing Conceptions of Privacy in Twentieth-Century America 111
• Chapter 6 - Building a Toxic Environment Historical Controversies Over the Past and Future of Public Health 130
• Part III - Priorities and Politics 151
• Chapter 7 - Situating Health Risks an Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy 153
• Chapter 8 - The Jewel in the Federal Crown? History, Politics, and the National Institutes of Health 176
• Chapter 9 - A Marriage of Convenience the Persistent and Changing Relationship Between Long-Term Care and Medicaid 202
• Part IV - Policy Management and Results 227
• Chapter 10 - Rhetoric, Realities, and the Plight of the Mentally Ill in America 229
• Chapter 11 - Emergency Rooms the Reluctant Safety Net 250
• Chapter 12 - Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures the Allegheny Bankruptcy 273
• Chapter 13 - The Rise and Decline of the Hmo a Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History 309
• Contributors 341
• Index 345

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