History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back in - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Publisher Marketing: In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight - even in swiftly developing fields such as health and medicine. In History and Health Policy in the United States, seventeen leading scholars of history, history of medicine, bioethics, law, health policy, sociology, and organizational theory make the case for the usefulness of history in evaluating and formulating health policy today. In looking at issues as varied as the consumer economy, risk, and the plight of the uninsured, the contributors uncover the often unstated assumptions that shape the way we think about technology, the role of government, and contemporary medicine.

Contributor Bio:  Stevens, Rosemary A Rosemary A. Stevens is a DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in social medicine and public policy at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Stanley I. Sheerr professor emeritus in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her writings have appeared in Harvard Business Review; Journal of Health Politics, Policies and Law;and American Journal of Public Health. In addition she is the author of numerous books, including The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Policy. Contributor Bio:  Rosenberg, Charles E Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought. Contributor Bio:  Burns, Lawton R Lawton Robert Burns is James Joo-Jin Kim Professor and Chair of the Health Care Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses on healthcare strategy, strategic implementation and the US healthcare system. Dr Burns taught previously in the business schools at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona. He is Programme Leader for Health Care Management at the Indian School of Business' new campus in Mohali where he oversees the entire healthcare curriculum.